Patent ID: 8897171

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a memory; and a processor circuit in communication with the memory, the processor circuit configured to: store an identifier to establish a non-Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) network connection with a customer-premises equipment (CPE) device; receive an IPv4 address request from the CPE device, the IPv4 address request being a request to configure the CPE device to establish an IPv4 network connection with the CPE device, the IPv4 address request transmitted according to dynamic host configuration protocol version 4 (DHCPv4) over the non-IPv4 network connection established through a non-IPv4 network connection request; insert the identifier used to establish the non-IPv4 network connection into the IPv4 address request, the identifier being inserted into the IPv4 address request to configure the CPE device to establish the IPv4 network connection with the CPE device; and receive an assigned IPv4 address from a DHCPv4 server and transmit the assigned IPv4 address via the non-IPv4 network connection to the CPE device.