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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2024
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Alexandru Cozma, Bucharest, RO;
Jeffery J Van Heuklon, Rochester, MN (US);
Fred Allison Bower, III, Durham, NC (US);
Li Jun Gu, Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
A computer program product and method include the operations of loading an iPXE client that is stored in firmware, transmitting a query over a wide area network to a DNS server that requests the location of iPXE boot image servers that store a boot image for use by the computer, and receiving a DNS SRV record from the DNS server. The DNS SRV record identifies an Internet Protocol address for each of a plurality of iPXE boot image servers that are outside a subnet that includes the computer. The operations further include determining one or more network properties of network communication, such as latency, between the computer and each iPXE boot image server, identifying the iPXE boot image server having the most suitable value of network property(ies), such as latency, for obtaining the boot image, and booting the boot image obtained from the identified iPXE boot image server.
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