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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ravi Kumar Reddy Kottapalli, Bangalore, IN;

Srinivas Sampatkumar Hemige, Bangalore, IN;

Mithil Prakash Rangdale, Bangalore, IN;

Shilpa Sharma, Bangalore, IN;

Avinash Savaliya, Gujarat, IN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 45/58 (2022.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/583 (2013.01); H04L 9/0825 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) in a computing environments. In one example, a management service identifies a registration or import of a route target (RT) to communicate in a VRF and identifies a first unique identifier associated with the RT. The management service further identifies a second unique identifier associated with the VRF and compares the first unique identifier to the second unique identifier. When the unique identifiers match, the management service determines that intra-VRF encryption is required for the communication. In contrast, when the unique identifiers do not match, then the management service determine that inter-VRF encryption is required for the communication.


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