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Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

John Allen Patterson, Niwot, CO (US);

Derek J. Leslie, Erie, CO (US);

Adam Carter, Louisville, CO (US);

Marc Wayne Brotherson, Boulder, CO (US);

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 12/4645 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A technique is configured to utilize frames generated by a first layer of a protocol stack for a first network to configure network parameters associated with a second layer of the protocol stack for a second network. The frames are illustratively beacon frames generated by a data link layer of a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack for a wireless network, and the network parameters are illustratively IP addresses associated with a network layer of the TCP/IP stack for a wired network. Notably, the beacon frames of the wireless network may be utilized for two-way communication exchange on a per node basis for each node in the wired network.


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