Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stateless autoconfiguration of hostnames of network devices
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Application No.: US14643979Application Date: 2015-03-10
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Publication No.: US09699136B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Rajiv Asati , Ralph Droms
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/12
- IPC: H04L29/12 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for dynamically determining or learning hostnames. According to embodiments described herein, a solicitation message is received at a first network device. Based on the solicitation message, a hostname is determined for a second network device that sent the solicitation message. A first network address is also determined for the second network device that sent the solicitation message. A mapping between the hostname and the first network address is stored at the first network device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150188878A1 STATELESS AUTOCONFIGURATION OF HOSTNAMES OF NETWORK DEVICES Public/Granted day:2015-07-02
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