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Patent No.:

US 11196591 B1

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Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 24, 2018
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mukesh Hira, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Su Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Rahul Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);

Sandeep Siroya, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 45/72 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments provide a centralized overlay-network cloud gateway and a set of centralized services in a transit virtual private cloud (VPC) connected to multiple other compute VPCs hosting compute nodes (VMs, containers, etc.) that are part of (belong to) the overlay network. The centralized overlay-network cloud gateway provides connectivity between compute nodes of the overlay network (e.g., a logical network spanning multiple VPCs) and compute nodes in external networks. Some embodiments use the centralized overlay-network cloud gateway to provide transitive routing (e.g., routing through a transit VPC) in the absence of direct peering between source and destination VPCs. The overlay network, of some embodiments, uses the same subnetting and default gateway address for each compute node as the cloud provider network provided by the virtual private cloud provider.


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