Patent ID: 8046445

Claim:
A method of managing networks, comprising: receiving at a gateway a first Target Identifier Address Resolution Protocol (TARP) request from a requesting node, wherein the first TARP request includes a Target Identifier (TID) of a destination node; in response to receiving the first TARP request, generating a second TARP request based on the first TARP request, wherein the second TARP request includes the TID of the destination node and a Network Service Access Point (NSAP) address of the gateway; transmitting the second TARP request from the gateway to the destination node; receiving at the gateway a first TARP response from the destination node, wherein the first TARP response includes an NSAP address of the destination node; in response to receiving the first TARP response, generating a second TARP response based on the first TARP response, wherein the second TARP response includes the TID of the destination node and the NSAP address of the gateway; and transmitting the second TARP response to the requesting node.