| 摘要 |
A method and a system employable in conjunction with a computer-based IP network of a type which includes no DHCP/BootP server, for nonetheless employing, in an unusual manner, the traditional DHCP protocol in a way which allows for (a) the discovery of yet IP-unaddressed client devices connected to the network, and further (b) for the assigning of such an address to such a discovered device. From a methodologic point of view, the invention contemplates the unsolicited and gratuitous broadcasting over the network, in response to what can be thought of as an imaginary client-device request to a network server for an IP address, of a response packet to such an imaginary request, which broadcast elicits responses from yet undiscovered client devices which will identify themselves and whether or not they possess IP addresses, thus to enable further implementation of the same DHCP standard protocol then to assign appropriate IP addresses to these devices, and thus to configure them for thereafter normal access and utility in the associated network.
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