Patent ID: 7320036
Filing Date: 2008-01-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a set of processors, cause said set of processors to perform operations comprising: establishing a communications session between a host and a remote access concentrator through a customer premise equipment under a first of a plurality of accounts, where the customer premise equipment is separate from the host; establishing a second communications session between the host and the remote access concentrator through the customer premise equipment under a second of the plurality of accounts without terminating the first communication session; retrieving a set of network layer information corresponding to the first account; retrieving a second set of network layer information, the second set of network information corresponding to the second account; creating a message having the set of network layer information within a data link layer of the message; creating a second message having the second set of network layer information within a data link layer of the message; transmitting the message from the remote access concentrator to the host; transmitting the second message from the remote access concentrator to the host; extracting the set of network layer information from the message at the data link layer; extracting the second set of network layer information from the second message; applying the set of network layer information to the host to add, into the host, a route; and applying the second set of network layer information to the host.