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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2008
Sahil Dighe, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Joseph Olakangil, Midvale, UT (US);
Sahil Dighe, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Joseph Olakangil, Midvale, UT (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present invention resolves IP address conflicts in a network with DHCP or other address assignment protocol when some host on the network uses a conflicting static IP address to an IP address assigned to another host. The preferred method involves offering a given IP address to a host/node through the address assignment protocol while also detecting any other host/node using the offered IP address on a given VLAN using address resolution protocol. If another host/node is using the IP address, the offending host/node may be blocked on that VLAN for a set amount of time.