Patent ID: 7616613

Claim:
A method for transferring information in a digital network, the method comprising determining a tunnel configuration for a multipoint tunnel interface, the tunnel configuration used to generate a multipoint tunnel; creating a multipoint tunnel using the tunnel configuration for the multipoint tunnel interface, the multipoint tunnel interface being an interface on a network device to transfer information from the from the network device to a plurality of endpoint devices through an access point; using a routing configuration to route communications over the multipoint tunnel to the plurality of endpoint devices; receiving a change to the tunnel configuration for the multipoint tunnel interface after creating the multipoint tunnel and routing communications over the multipoint tunnel to the plurality of endpoint devices, wherein changing comprises changing a wireless network ID identifying a subnet for the multipoint tunnel, IP address, and trusted/distrusted attribute indicating whether the multipoint tunnel is trusted or distrusted; and managing state of the network such that the change of the tunnel configuration is allowed, wherein changing of the wireless network ID includes dynamically causing a change in a binding for the endpoint devices bound to the subnet identified by the wireless network ID for the access point and changing the trusted/distrusted attribute dynamically causing changing in behavior for how endpoint devices are bound to the access point, and changing the IP address dynamically causing deleting of bindings for the endpoint devices for the access point for the multipoint tunnel interface.