Patent ID: 8429254

Claim:
A method for configuring network configurable devices that are directly connected with each other in a network, the method comprising: creating, using one of the network configurable devices, a lower 64-bit IPv6 address using Stateless Address Auto-configuration based on an Ethernet address of the one network configurable device: creating, using the one network configurable device, an upper 64-bit IPv6 address: storing the created upper 64-bit IPv6 address in a cache of the one network configurable device; instilling, the created upper 64-bit IPv6 address into a cache of a neighboring one of the network configurable devices; creating, using a lower 64-bit IPv6 address of the neighboring network configurable device, a link-local gateway of the neighboring network configurable device; keeping the link-local gateway in an embedded gateway table of the neighboring network configurable device; creating, using the lower 64-bit IPv6 address and the instilled upper 64-bit IPv6 address, a 128-bit embedded gateway of the neighboring network configurable device; keeping the 128-bit embedded gateway of the neighboring network configurable device in the embedded gateway table of the neighboring network configurable device; transmitting the presence of the link-local embedded gateway and 128-bit embedded gateway of the neighboring network configurable device to the one network configurable device; and communicating, using an embedded gateway table of the one network configurable device and the embedded gateway table of the neighboring network configurable device, between the network configurable devices.