Automatic discovery and configuration of external network...

Details Automatic discovery and configuration of external network... Automatic discovery and configuration of external network...

2003-06-06

2008-08-26

Flynn, Nathan (Department: 2143)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Network computer configuring

C709S219000, C709S223000, C709S224000, C709S228000, C370S254000, C370S389000, C370S392000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07418486

ABSTRACT:
An improved system and method for discovering and configuring secure network topologies responds to existing networking environments and encompasses the dynamic detection and configuration of an appropriate hardware or software solution. In an embodiment of the invention, a broadcast mechanism is used to provide hardware device discovery while application programming interfaces provide discovery of software firewalls. In a further embodiment, a polling technique is used to ensure that the configuration of a gateway device does not change, endangering the protected network.

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