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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Dean Har′el Lorenz, Haifa, IL;
Katherine Barabash, Haifa, IL;
Etai Lev Ran, Nofit, IL;
Alexey Roytman, Givat Elah, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments are directed to receiving, at a receiving device, a packet from a node in a first network. determining a version identifier for the packet, encoding the version identifier into the packet, and transmitting the packet containing the encoded version identifier to a load balancing device in a second network. The version identifier may be encoded into a destination port field of the packet. The receiving device may be a perimeter network address translation device. The packet is received at the load balancing device, where the version identifier is extracted and a hash of source address information is performed. The version and hash are used to select a back-end device in the second network. The packet is transmitted to the selected back-end device.