Cisco Technology, Inc.

Mahesh Kelkar

Prasad Deshpande

Del Friedman

A method and device to manage addresses in a network includes receiving a request for a network address from a client computer at a proxy computer, relaying the request to an address server, receiving an address offer message from the address server at the proxy computer, storing an server identifier of the address server from the offer message, replacing the server identifier of the address server in the offer message with an address identifier of the proxy computer to produce an altered offer message, and sending the altered offer message to the client computer.

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Nashua, NH, United States of America

Mahesh Kelkar