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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Akhila Naveen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kantesh Mundaragi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rahul Mishra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Fenil Kavathia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Raju Koganty, San Jose, CA (US);
Pierluigi Rolando, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yong Feng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for forwarding a data message. The method performs a lookup to map a set of header fields of the data message to an identifier corresponding to a service that performs non-forwarding processing on data messages. The method uses a dynamically-updated data structure for the identifier to retrieve instructions for forwarding data messages to the service. The method forwards the data message according to the retrieved instructions from the data structure for the identifier.