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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Pravin Shelar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jarno Rajahalme, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/771 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that parses a packet to selectively extract a set of header field values for a flow key. The forwarding element then uses the flow key to find a matching flow to process the packet. In some embodiments, the forwarding element chooses the set of header values following the match pattern of a set of one or more flows. The forwarding element of some embodiments chooses the set of header values based on a wildcard mask that is associated with a flow entry or a flow table mask that is associated with a flow table.