Cross-subnet-nodes subnet node device detection method

• US 20080198762A1
• Filed: 02/20/2007
• Published: 08/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Tom, Liu, Win-Harn, Bai, Yuan
• Application Number:
  US11/707,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20080198762A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4541 Directories for service discovery

Abstract

A cross-subnet-nodes network node device detection method is provided, including the steps of disposing a boot module in each network node devices in an arbitrary subnet of a network; activating the first subnet node device to be a registry server and recording its registry information; activating other network node devices in the subnet, and dispatching the registry information of these devices to the registry server and recording it; searching for the IP address of the first available network node device in the subnet; issuing a command for searching the registry server, issuing a registry information command by the first available network node device, and obtaining the IP address of the registry server and sending it back to the discovery server; and upon receiving a command for searching the network node devices by the registry server, transmitting the information of the node devices in a subnet back to the discovery server.

Claims

1. A cross-subnet-nodes network node device detection method, that is capable of performing rapid search of network node devices on a plurality of subnet nodes in any one of subnets of a large scale network environment, comprising the following steps:

disposing a boot module in a network node device on each respective subnet nodes in an arbitrary subnet of a network;

activating the network node device of a first subnet node in the subnet, and activating the network node device to be a registry server by means of the boot module of the network node device, and recording registry information of the network node device;

activating the network node device of other subnet nodes in the subnet, and dispatching the registry information of the network node devices to the registry server of the first subnet node through the boot modules of the network node devices and recording it;

searching and obtaining a IP address of the network node device on a first available subnet node in the subnet through a check process when the discovery server is required to search all the network node devices in the subnet;

issuing a command for searching registry server to the network node device of the first available subnet node by the discovery server, issuing a registry information command in turn by the network node device on the first available subnet node through the boot module, and obtaining a IP address of the registry server and sending it back to the discovery server; and

issuing a command for searching all the network node devices in the subnet to the registry server by the discovery server, and transmitting the registry information of all the network node devices in the subnet to the discovery server by the registry server through the boot module.

2. The cross-subnet-nodes network node device detection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the registry information of the network node devices of the respective subnet nodes includes information of IP address of the network node device, type of the node, and type of supportive network connection protocol.

3. The cross-subnet-nodes network node device detection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the registry information of the network node devices of the respective subnet nodes is transmitted through Multi-Cast Registry Packets.

4. The cross-subnet-nodes network node device detection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the registry information of the network node devices of the other subnet nodes is recorded in an internal memory table of the registry server of the first subnet node.

5. The cross-subnet-nodes network node device detection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the check procedure is an echo check procedure of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP).