Patent ID: 8717937

Claim:
A method for acquiring network configuration information, comprising: when a terminal device, which does not provide a function of a DHCP client or disable a function of a DHCP client dials up and needs to carry out network data services, delivering, by a Network Driver Interface Standard NDIS driver layer of the terminal device, a Query Network Configuration Information message to a wireless modem to query for network configuration information wherein the network configuration information comprises IP address information and gateway information; and acquiring, by the NDIS driver layer, network configuration information returned by the wireless modem, and providing an application layer of the terminal device with the acquired network configuration information; wherein the Query Network Configuration Information message is delivered to the wireless modem via the NDIS port by using NDIS command language; wherein after providing the application layer of the terminal device with the acquired network configuration information, the method further comprises: completing, by the application layer of the terminal device, network address configuration by using the acquired network configuration information.