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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2020
Applicant:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sami Boutros, Union City, CA (US);
Ankur Dubey, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mike Parsa, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Israel Cidon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Prashanth Venugopal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 49/9057 (2022.01); H04L 61/2592 (2022.01); H04L 61/103 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 49/9057 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/2592 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for (1) embedding a specific path for a tenant's data message flow through a network in tunnel headers encapsulating the data message flow, and then (2) using the embedded path information to direct the data message flow through the network. In some embodiments, the method selects the specific path from two or more viable such paths through the network for the data message flow.