Patent ID: 8868708

Claim:
A method for identification, in a server node connected to a network, of at least one client node connected to the network, comprising: transmitting an identification message to the at least one client node, the identification message comprising a physical address and an Internet address of the server node contained in an application data portion of the identification message; receiving at least one message containing a pair of addresses of the at least one client node in response to the transmitting the identification message, the pair of addresses comprising a physical address and an Internet address, being explicitly duplicated in the application data portion of the received message; and static storing of the pair of addresses contained in the application data portion of the received message in an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) buffer in the server node, such that the pair of addresses is positioned as a permanent input to the ARP buffer prior to any diagnostic message transmission by the server node and without sending and receiving any ARP type messages.