US 11,924,293 B2
Network beacon for hypervisor installations
Michael Kolesnik, Netanya (IL); and Mordechay Asayag, Netanya (IL)
Assigned to Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana (IL)
Filed by RED HAT ISRAEL, LTD., Raanana (IL)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/111,354.
Application 18/111,354 is a division of application No. 16/807,143, filed on Mar. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,588,906.
Application 16/807,143 is a division of application No. 15/604,559, filed on May 24, 2017, granted, now 10,582,010, issued on Mar. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0208926 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 41/08 (2022.01); H04L 41/0803 (2022.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/34 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 41/08 (2013.01); H04L 41/0803 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0809 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining, by a hypervisor of a host, that network identifying information of a plurality of networks to which the hypervisor is connected is unknown;
listening for messages on the plurality of networks to obtain network identifying information for respective networks;
receiving a message on a network of the plurality of networks, the message including a network identifier and a set of configuration settings;
configuring a network connection of the hypervisor for the network in view of the network identifier and the set of configuration settings from the message,
receiving a second message on the network of the plurality of networks, the second message including an update of at least one of, the network identifier or the set of configuration settings; and
re-configuring the network connection of the hypervisor for the network in view of the update.