A system and method for configuring components added to a network is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a device associated with a network in a cluster including a plurality of host machines, a set of configuration settings for the network, and configuring a network connection of the device using the set of configuration settings for the network. The method further includes generating a message including the set of configuration settings for the network and periodically broadcasting the message on the network to provide the set of configuration settings to a hypervisor that is configuring a corresponding network connection on a host machine from the cluster.