Patent ID: 8473589

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a processing device; and a memory including instructions executable by the processing device, the processing device when executing the instructions operable to: receive an input identifying provisioning parameters for a remote network device; relay a provisioning request originating from the remote network device, the provisioning request relayed to a remote provisioning server; receive a provisioning reply from the remote provisioning server, the provisioning reply including provisioning information identifying a first configuration file stored remotely with respect to the processing device; modify the provisioning information such that the modified provisioning information no longer identifies the first remotely stored configuration file and instead identifies a second different configuration file, the second different configuration file corresponding to the identified provisioning parameters; and relay the provisioning reply having the modified provisioning information to the remote network device; wherein the relayed provisioning reply is sent from a gateway of an access network to customer premise equipment and is configured to prevent the customer premise equipment from completing ranging with the gateway.