Patent ID: 8804535

Claim:
A system comprising: a first device configured to receive a first configuration packet that contains configuration information from a network monitor, get the configuration information comprising a configured network address of a second device and a configured network address of a third device, wherein the first device does not have a network address, generate an original packet comprising a source network address that is the network address of the third device and a destination network address that is the network address of the second device, send the original packet, receive a packet, determine if the received packet is a second configuration packet, the sent original packet, or a packet that has the source network address or the destination network address of the third device, in response to the received packet being the second configuration packet, get a second configuration information from the second configuration packet, in response to the received packet being the sent original packet, ignoring the received packet, and in response to the received packet being the packet that has the source address network address or the destination network address of the third device, send a packet that comprises the source network address and the destination network address.