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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
May. 14, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Aaron S. Palazzolo, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach for dynamic discovery and assignment of virtual local area networks (VLANs) is provided. In the approach, a network switch receives a request for VLAN configuration, from a device connecting to a port of the network switch. The network switch retrieves a list of available VLANs at the port, determines whether respective ones of the available VLANs are configured for the device, forms an acknowledgement including a list of VLANs configured for the device, and sends the acknowledgement to the device. In the approach, the acknowledgement is used to determine one of the VLANs configured for the device; the one of the VLANs configured for the device is tagged by the device to an adapter of the device, and the device is connected to the one of the VLANs configured for the device.