We dispatch switches to third party sites to connect to a specific (one and only one) device and data from that device is transferred to our site and vice versa. No other devices are ever connected to that switch from their side. It happens, from time to time, the third site will, for some reason, change their IP and we would loose connection to the switch and consequently to the device in question.
We need to be able to access that switch and re-configure it, no matter what.