Patent ID: 8721454

Claim:
A gaming system for managing internet protocol (IP) addresses, the gaming system comprising: one or more gaming machines, wherein each gaming machine includes one or more gaming presentations that are displayable to a user and each gaming machine is assigned an external IP address, wherein at least one gaming machine of the one or more gaming machines further includes more than one in-game network devices that are IP address-capable and an in-game switch that manages an internal IP address scope for the more than one in-game network devices, and wherein at least one gaming machine is wirelessly connected to one or more servers; wherein the in-game switch determines whether an updated internal IP address scope has been received from a local server, and wherein the in-game switch determines whether an updated external IP address has been received from a remote server; wherein, in response to the in-game switch having determined that no updated internal IP address scope and updated external IP address were received, the in-game switch leases a temporary internal IP address selected from a default IP address scope to each of the more than one in-game network devices.