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US 2010/0165877 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus for distributed dynamic network provisioning
AssigneeJuniper Networks, Inc.
InventorsAmit Shukla, Xiangwen Xu
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a device identifier associated with a virtual resource, determining a configuration template identifier based on the device identifier, and selecting a configuration template from a library of configuration templates based on the configuration template identifier. The receiving, determining, and selecting are at a network device. The virtual resource is hosted by a host device. The device identifier is received from the host device.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving at a network device a device identifier associated with a virtual resource from a host device, the virtual resource hosted by the host device;
- determining at the network device a configuration template identifier based on the device identifier;
- and
- selecting at the network device a configuration template from a library of configuration templates based on the configuration template identifier.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving a configuration template identifier, the configuration template identifier being associated with a configuration template having a network parameter;
- producing a device identifier based on the configuration template identifier and a nonce;
- and
- uniquely associating the device identifier with a virtual resource such that the virtual resource is identifiable based on the device identifier.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving a configuration template identifier associated with a configuration template;
- generating a nonce;
- producing a device identifier based on a combination of the configuration template identifier and the nonce;
- and
- storing the device identifier as a medium access control address of the virtual resource.
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