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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2018
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vivek Agarwal, Campbell, CA (US);
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);
Rahul Korivi Subramaniyam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ram Dular Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Howard Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A logical routing element (LRE) having multiple designated instances for routing packets from physical hosts (PH) to a logical network is provided. A PH in a network segment with multiple designated instances can choose among the multiple designated instances for sending network traffic to other network nodes in the logical network according to a load balancing algorithm. Each logical interface (LIF) of an LRE is defined to be addressable by multiple identifiers or addresses, and each LIF identifier or address is assigned to a different designated instance.