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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2015
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vivek Agarwal, Campbell, CA (US);
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);
Rahul Korivi Subramaniyam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Howard Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ram Dular Singh, Cupertino, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A LRE (logical routing element) that have LIFs that are active in all host machines spanned by the LRE as well as LIFs that are active in only a subset of those spanned host machines is provided. A host machine having an active LIF for a particular L2 segment would perform the L3 routing operations for network traffic related to that L2 segment. A host machine having an inactive LIF for the particular L2 segment would not perform L3 routing operations for the network traffic of the L2 segment.