Patent ID: 7836203

Claim:
A method, comprising: monitoring allocation of dynamic addresses on a port of a routing device, wherein said monitoring includes monitoring DHCP communication on the port of the routing device; acquiring a DHCP-identified network address of a computer connected to the port in response to identifying said network address during monitoring of said dynamic address allocation; and configuring the port with an address route exclusive to the identified network address in response to acquiring the DHCP-identified network address, wherein configuring the port includes creating a Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR) network address mask corresponding to the DHCP-identified network address and assigning the CIDR network address mask to the port, wherein configuring the port includes determining an available Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifier and assigning the CIDR network address mask to the VLAN identifier and wherein assigning the CIDR network address mask to the port includes assigning said VLAN identifier to the port.