Patent ID: 8351427

Claim:
A method in a telecommunication node for routing data packets received from a customer premises device having a source address towards a service node having a destination address, said method comprising the steps of: receiving by an input interface, a data packet from the customer premises device, the data packet including the source address of the customer premises device and the destination address of the service node; determining by a routing table, an output interface associated with the destination address, the output interface for forwarding the received data packet toward the service node; identifying by a service profile table, a service profile associated with the output interface, wherein the service profile includes at least one service parameter; determining whether the service profile is associated with the source address utilizing a table interface over which selected service profiles in the service profile table and the source address of the customer premises device are associated with each other; and forwarding the data packet towards the service node over the output interface if the service profile is associated with the source address; wherein when the customer premises device sends a different packet to the telecommunication node with a different destination address, the method further comprises the telecommunication node providing the customer premises device with access to a different service node when the table interface indicates the source address of the different packet is associated with one of the service profiles in the service profile table.