Dell Products Inc.

Bruce Bin Hu

Rui Jiang

Baoli Chen

Kui Hu

An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to receive a plurality of address resolution protocol (ARP) packets based on requests that have been transmitted from a provisioning system to a plurality of network addresses; based on contents of the plurality of ARP packets, determine one of the plurality of network addresses as a potential network address; based on the contents of the plurality of ARP packets, determine a potential gateway address; and use the potential network address to attempt to communicate with the provisioning system via the potential gateway address.

Automatic detection-based IP allocation

A disclosed plug and play method for expanding a cluster, comprised of a cluster manager and a plurality of existing and configured nodes connected to a Layer 2 discovery network detect a new node connecting to the cluster. The new node may be provisioned with a TCP/IP virtual adapter (TVA) configured to perform TVA operations. The TVA operations may include joining the Layer 2 discovery network and invoking an agent running in the new node to collect TVA stack information as well as broadcasting the TVA stack information to the Layer 2 discovery network. The operations further include, responsive to detecting TVA stack information on the Layer 2 discovery network by the new node, storing the TVA stack information to a node pool store and configuring the new node based, at least in part, on the TVA stack information and information in the node pool store corresponding to one or more of the configured nodes.

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Shanghai, China

Bruce Bin Hu