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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2019
Applicant:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Zhenjun Zhuo, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/2015 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for dynamically configuring multiple instances of applications that operate on clients in a network system. The method of some embodiments uses the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to configure the multiple instances of each application to share a pool of resources specific to the application that are used for configuring the application on each of the clients. Some embodiments of the invention store an application ID in DHCP-formatted packets to differentiate the packets from DHCP packets and to distribute shared configuration resources between various instances of the application.