Patent ID: 11888814
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of managing an address space across network elements, the method comprising:
automatically distributing, by a network device configured to manage an address space across a first network element and a second network element, a first block of network addresses to the first network element acting, for a first network, as a first address allocation server to assign the first block of network addresses to a first set of client devices coupled to the first network;
automatically distributing, by the network device, a second block of network addresses to the second network element acting, for a second network, as a second address allocation server to assign the second block of network addresses to a second set of client devices coupled to the second network;
interfacing, by the network device, with the first address allocation server to determine a first number of available network addresses within the first block of network addresses that are available for allocation to first clients;
interfacing, by the network device, with the second address allocation server to determine a second number of available network addresses within the second block of network addresses that are available for allocation to second clients; and
dynamically managing, by the network device and based on the first number of available network addresses within the first block of network addresses that are available for allocation to the first clients and the second number of available network addresses within the second block of network addresses that are available for allocation to the second clients, a size of the first block of network addresses and a size of the second block of network addresses to address inefficient distribution of available network addresses within either or both of the first block of network addresses and the second block of network addresses.