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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2016
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Qin Li, Beijing, CN;
Shailesh Urhekar, Pune, IN;
Amit Chopra, Pune, IN;
Ayyappan Veeraiyan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Uday Masurekar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Example methods are provided to perform traffic forwarding between geographically dispersed first site and second site and to support traffic forwarding via a trunk interface. In one example, the method may comprise receiving, by a first edge device at the first site, network traffic comprising a plurality of packets via a trunk interface of the first edge device from a virtual tunnel endpoint, the virtual tunnel endpoint having decapsulated the packets prior to communicating the packets through the trunk interface. The method may further comprise reading an overlay network identifier from each of the packets to identify a source overlay network of the received network traffic from the multiple overlay networks; modifying each of the packets to include a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier; and forwarding modified network traffic to a second edge device at the second site to identify the destination network based on the VLAN identifier.