Patent ID: 7117349

Claim:
A method for obtaining configuration parameters for connecting to a network, the method comprising: storing, under a control of a remote management computer that is connected to a client computer, a list of trusted configuration servers in a Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) card on the client computer; broadcasting a request for a configuration parameter from the computer to a plurality of configuration servers; receiving a response to the request for the configuration parameter at the client computer, the response being from a responding configuration server from the plurality of configuration servers; comparing an identity of the responding configuration server with the list of trusted configuration servers; upon verifying that the responding configuration server is on the list of trusted configuration servers, requesting configuration parameters from the responding configuration server; in response to determining that the responding configuration server is not on a list of trusted configuration servers, selecting, by the client computer, a selected server from one of the servers on the list of trusted configuration servers; and requesting, by the client computer, the configuration parameters from the selected server.