Patent ID: 8675536

Claim:
A method for power cycling in a network interface, comprising: establishing communication between a new base station of a wireless network and the network interface, the network interface having a current network address; intercepting at the new base station incorrectly addressed data from the network interface, the intercepting occurring after the communication is established between the network interface and the new base station; identifying a disconnection of the network interface from an old base station of the wireless network based on the new base station intercepting the incorrectly addressed data from the network interface; and transmitting, after the identifying the disconnection, a message from the new base station to the network interface instructing the network interface to cycle power, the power cycling of the network interface comprising powering down the network interface and powering up the network interface, the power cycling of the network interface causing the network interface to request a new network address to replace the current network address, the transmitting being based on a predetermined rule that identifies a network condition for the power cycling, and the network condition including whether a first network configuration of the new base station is different from a second network configuration of the old base station.