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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Natasha Gude, San Francisco, CA (US);
Soner Sevinc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Igor Ganichev, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anuprem Chalvadi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller that manages a flow-based managed forwarding element (MFE). The method receives multiple service rules for implementation by the MFE. Each service rule matches over a set of network addresses. At least one network address is in the set of network addresses for at least two service rules. The method groups the network addresses into non-overlapping groups of network addresses, each of which addresses that are all matched by only a same set of service rules. The method generates flow entries that match over the groups of network addresses for the MFE to use to implement the service rules.