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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mike Parsa, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Xinhua Hong, Milpitas, CA (US);
Subrahmanyam Manuguri, San Jose, CA (US);
Anirban Sengupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for providing a stateful service at a network edge device (e.g., an NSX edge) that has a plurality of north-facing interfaces (e.g., interfaces to an external network) and a plurality of corresponding south-facing interfaces (e.g., interfaces to a logical network). In some embodiments, the network edge device receives data messages from a first gateway device from a logical network, provides the stateful network service to the data message, and forwards the data message towards the destination through a corresponding interface connected to a physical network.