Patent ID: 8055772

Claim:
A method for effecting assignment of addresses in a system, said system including at least one server device and a plurality of client devices communicatingly coupled with said at least one server device, said addresses permitting communications among said at least one server device and at least one selected client device of said plurality of client devices, the method comprising the steps of: (a) identifying a respective non-mapped geographic locus for each respective client device of said at least one selected client device; and (b) assigning a respective non-mapped geographic address for each said respective client device, each said respective geographic address identifying a particular said respective geographic locus for a particular said respective client device; and wherein said respective client device and a replacement client device are configured for removable coupling, and wherein replacement of said respective client device with said replacement client device requires no reconfiguration of said system and permits the respective non-mapped geographic address to remain unchanged from the respective client device to the replacement client device, wherein said at least one server device is a plurality of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol servers, wherein each said respective client device is coupled within said system at a respective system connection facility, each said respective geographic locus corresponding to the respective said system connection facility, each said respective geographic address identifying a particular said respective system connection facility, and wherein each said respective system connection facility comprises a particular slot at a particular backplane at a particular chassis in said system.