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Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sujeet Banerjee, Bangalore, IN;

Anirudh Agarwal, Bangalore, IN;

Amarjeet Singh, Bangalore, IN;

Sureshbabu Koyadan Chathoth, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 61/2007 (2013.01); H04L 61/2061 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 61/6068 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network management server allocates network addresses to a network gateway connected to a public network after receiving an allocation request that specifies a number of network addresses to allocate to the network gateway. The network management server determines a first and second subnets of the public network having, respectively, first and second pools of available network addresses capable of being allocated to devices on the public network, and allocates one or more available network addresses from the first and second pools to the network gateway.


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