DOCSIS PROVISIONING OF POINT-TO-POINT ETHERNET

A system for provisioning of point-to-point Ethernet data services via a cable provisioning infrastructure, including CPEs, and floor switches that include customer-facing ports, each CPE being connected to a customer-facing port, and a cable operator distribution hub, including aggregation switches, each floor switch being connected to one aggregation switch, a gateway server, and an operations support system server provisioning cable data services to the subscribers, including a host configuration server dynamically allocating network addresses to the CPEs, wherein the aggregation switches and the gateway server are configured to intermediate as a double-relay for initial network address request messages between the CPEs and the host configuration server, whereby the aggregation switches relay the messages to the gateway server, and the gateway server relays the messages to the host configuration server, and wherein the gateway server is operable to add host configuration server options to messages that it relays.