Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Mediatek Corporation

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Xiaorong Qu

Weiguo Hao

Yuanbin Yin

Linda Dunbar

Hong-Ching Chen

Kuo-Cheng Lu

Chun-Yuan Chu

Examples of efficient MAC address storage are described, including methods and an apparatus. A method may involve obtaining a plurality of identifications associated with one or more applications executed on a computing apparatus, with each identification of the plurality of identifications different from one another. The method may also involve storing an identification entry representative of the plurality of identifications associated with the one or more applications. The identification entry may require an amount of memory space for storage less than an amount of memory space required to store the plurality of identifications associated with the one or more applications. The plurality of identifications may be a plurality of MAC addresses. The one or more applications may be one or more virtual machines.

Efficient MAC address storage for virtual machine applications

A network node comprising a processor configured to maintain a plurality of mapping entries for one or more virtual network instances, receive a data packet within a first virtual network instance, wherein the data packet comprises an inner destination address, match the inner destination address with one of the mapping entries, obtain an outer destination address that corresponds to the matched mapping entry, encapsulate the data packet with the outer destination address, and forward the encapsulated data packet based on the outer destination address, wherein the mapping entries maps out all of the addresses for a plurality of end nodes that participate in the first virtual network instance.

Balancing of forwarding and address resolution in overlay networks

In an embodiment, the disclosure includes an apparatus comprising a host component which comprises a virtual switch associated with a virtual machine (VM). The host component is in communication with a routing component which is connected to a network and comprises a network address. The VM sends a communication packet to the virtual switch. The communications packet comprises address information comprising a virtual destination address. The virtual switch replaces the virtual destination address of the communications packet with the network address of the routing component. The disclosure also includes a network comprising a plurality of host components each comprising a virtual switch. The host components are connected to a common routing component. A first virtual switch is designated to respond to address requests and all non-designated virtual switches are configured not to respond to address requests.

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