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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pierluigi Rolando, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Raju Koganty, San Jose, CA (US);
Kantesh Mundaragi, Pune, IN;
Yuxiao Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rahul Mishra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Akhila Naveen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
For traffic exiting a logical network through a particular VTI, some embodiments perform a service classification operation for different data messages to identify different VTIs that connect the edge forwarding element to a service node to provide services required by the data messages. Each data message, in some embodiments, is then forwarded to the identified VTI to receive the required service. The identified VTI does not perform a service classification operation. The service node then returns the serviced data message to the edge forwarding element. In some embodiments, the identified VTI is not configured to perform the service classification operation and is instead configured to mark all traffic directed to the edge forwarding element as having been serviced. The marked serviced data message is received at the edge forwarding element and forwarded to a destination of the data message through the particular VTI.