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

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a Network Interface Card (NIC) of a compute node, a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) frame from a network-connected device, wherein the LLDP frame comprises a custom Type-Length-Value (TLV) corresponding to a first configuration for the NIC;
comparing, by the NIC, the first configuration with a second configuration, wherein the second configuration corresponds to an existing configuration of the NIC; and
in response to determining that the second configuration does not match with the first configuration, communicating to management utilities regarding a mismatch between configurations, and configuring the NIC with the first configuration during a boot-up of the compute node by modifying a setting of network boot operation for the NIC based on information from the LLDP frame.