Patent ID: 8615571
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of network address assignment in a data center, the data center comprising a plurality of chassis, each chassis comprising a chassis management module and a number of server slots, each server slot associated with a service processor, the method comprising: discovering, by a chassis management module of a particular chassis, one or more other chassis management modules in the data center; negotiating, by the chassis management module with the other chassis management modules via IPv6 data communications and without a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (‘DHCP’) server, a chassis-specific range of IPv4 addresses available for assignment to service processors of the particular chassis; providing, by the chassis management module to the service processors of the particular chassis, in dependence upon the chassis-specific range of IPv4 addresses, a base IPv4 address; and determining, by each service processor of the particular chassis, in dependence upon the base IPv4 address and a slot identifier of the server slot associated with the service processor, an IPv4 address for the service processor.