Patent ID: 8015314

Claim:
A system, comprising: a management device; and a device that is coupled together to the management device by a same physical subnet, and wherein the device is configured to perform actions, including: receiving a first broadcast frame over a network from the management device; snooping a hardware layer of a protocol stack for a frame directed to a predetermined port; forwarding the frame past a protocol layer independent of a protocol address when directed to the predetermined port; identifying whether the first broadcast frame is directed to the predetermined port; sending a response frame to a source of the first broadcast frame when the first broadcast frame was directed to the predetermined port, the response frame including the current protocol address; receiving a forcing frame directed to a predetermined port and including the hardware address of the device; changing a current protocol address of the device to a new protocol address specified in the forcing frame, wherein the current protocol address is outside an address range of the management device and the new protocol address is within the address range of the management device; and connecting to the management device using the new protocol address using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).