Patent ID: 7174371

Claim:
An arrangement for dynamic port configuration of network equipment for communication in a broadband network, characterized in that it comprises: a network operator intermediate means connecting end-user equipment, having a Media Access Control address, to the network through ports; a means for activating a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol relay agent in said network operator intermediate means; a filter in the network operator intermediate means filtering by capturing all broadcasted packets from end-user equipment to a network dynamic host configuration protocol server ( 24 ), packets from the network DHCP server and relay agent packets; in said network operator intermediate means said relay agent deploying remote-id and circuit-id relay options adding information to the packet about a unique Media Access Control address of the end-user equipment and physical port where the packet is received, thus enabling the network Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server to uniquely identify, through a relay agent packet and port-id, where the intermediate means resides in the network and thus the end-user equipment; a central managing database in connection with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server, reachable through said network operator intermediate means, keeping templates with recordings of network equipment parameters for their physical port settings and deployed services, thus enabling dynamic updating of port settings by conveying said recordings from said central managing database through a protocol means, recognizing the address to the network operator intermediate means through a relay agent packet to said network operator intermediate means and updating the parameters for intermediate port settings.