Patent ID: 11909590
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A Network Interface Card (NIC) of a compute node comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions, the instructions executable by the processor that cause the processor to:
receive a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) frame from a network-connected device, wherein the LLDP frame comprises a custom Type-Length-Value (TLV) configured with a first configuration, wherein the first configuration corresponds to an expected configuration for the NIC;
compare the first configuration with a second configuration of the NIC, wherein the second configuration corresponds to an existing configuration of the NIC; and
in response to a determination that the second configuration does not match the first configuration, communicate to management utilities regarding a mismatch between configurations, and configure the NIC with the first configuration during a subsequent boot-up of the compute node by modifying a setting of network boot operation for the NIC based on information from the LLDP frame.