A system and method for communicating between a management station and at
least two networks having duplicate Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An
IP address for an IP data packet to be sent to at least one of an end
device and the management station is recognized. A header of the IP data
packet with a tag that identifies one of the duplicate IP networks within
which the end device resides is modified. The IP data packet is routed,
based on the tag, in accordance with a policy.