Address Provisioning
OwnerItai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Dan Gluskin +1inventors
InventorsItai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Dan Gluskin, Pesah Spector
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Abstract
A method of self-configuring a network device. The method includes transmitting a first request for a network address in a configuration protocol packet, receiving a first response including a first network address assigned to the network device and additional information, responsive to the first request, transmitting a second request for a specific network address using at least some of the additional information from the first response and receiving a second response including the specific second network address, responsive to the second request.
Claims19
A method of self-configuring a network device, comprising:
- transmitting a first request for a network address in a configuration protocol packet;
- receiving a first response including a first network address assigned to the network device and additional information, responsive to the first request;
- transmitting a second request for a specific network address using at least some of the additional information from the first response;
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- receiving a second response including the specific second network address, responsive to the second request.
A network device, comprising:
- a network interface adapted to transmit and receive packets according to a configuration protocol;
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- a processor adapted to transmit a request for a network address in a configuration protocol packet, to extract from a response to the request a client ID and to transmit a second request for a specific network address corresponding to the client ID.
A configuration server, comprising:
- a network interface adapted to transmit and receive packets according to a configuration protocol;
- a memory storing a table which correlates between client IDs and specific IP addresses;
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- a processor adapted to receive requests for a network address in a configuration protocol packet and to transmit responsive to some of the received requests a response including a client ID from the table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.