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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Suresh Muppala, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nafisa Mandliwala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sirisha Myneni, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Venkatakrishnan Rajagopalan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides an approach for rate limiting packets in a network. Embodiments include receiving, by a rate limiting engine running on a host machine, a network event related to a virtual computing instance running on the host machine, the network event comprising flow information about a network flow. Embodiments include receiving, by the rate limiting engine, context information corresponding to the network flow, wherein the context information comprises one or more of a user characteristic or an application characteristic. Embodiments include determining, by the rate limiting engine, a priority for the network flow by applying a rate limiting policy to the flow information and the context information. Embodiments include providing, by the rate limiting engine, the priority for the network flow to a multiplexer for use in rate limiting the network flow.