MANAGING ADDRESS SPACES ACROSS NETWORK ELEMENTS

• Main Authors: X NIRMAL ANTONY, ONISHI STEVEN P, GANDHEWAR SUNIL MADHAORAO
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 12.06.2020
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

In general, techniques are described for managing address spaces across network elements. A network device including a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may executea pool manager that automatically distributes a first block of network addresses to a first network element acting, for a first network, as a first address allocation server to assign the first blockof network addresses. The pool manager may further automatically distribute a second block of contiguous network addresses to a second network element acting, for a second network, as a second addressallocation server. The pool manager may then dynamically manage a size of the first block of network addresses and a size of the second block of network addresses to address exhaustion of available network addresses within either or both of the first block of network addresses and the second block of network addresses. 总体上，描述了用于跨网络元件管理地址空间的技术。一种包括处理器的网络设备可以被配置为执行这些技术。处理器可以执行池管理器，该池管理器自动地将第一网络地址块分配给第一网络元件，第一网络元件针对第一网络用作第一地址