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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
May. 11, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bhalachandra G. Banavalikar, Cupertino, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a network adapter obtains tunneling endpoint information for each virtual switch of a plurality of virtual switches of a multi-destination group. The network adapter encapsulates each of a plurality of replicated multi-destination packets corresponding to respective virtual switches of the plurality of virtual switches with a header specific to a respective tunneling protocol identified in the tunneling endpoint information obtained for the respective virtual switch. The network adapter transmits each encapsulated multi-destination packet to a respective receiver hosted on the respective virtual switch corresponding to the encapsulated multi-destination packet, wherein the respective virtual switch determines a destination port for the encapsulated multi-destination packet on the respective virtual switch by identifying the multi-destination group, determined from the encapsulated multi-destination packet, in a port list on the respective virtual switch.