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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2021
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mansi Babbar, Freemont, CA (US);
Subin Cyriac Mathew, San Jose, CA (US);
Chidambareswaran Raman, Campbell, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides mechanisms for identifying a source location in a service chaining topology. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining, at an egress interface of a host that hosts a virtual machine ('VM'), whether a service plane MAC address ('spmac') in a packet header of a packet, provided to the egress interface, is the same as an inner destination MAC address in the packet; in response to determining that the spmac in the packet header of the packet, provided to the egress interface, is the same as the inner destination MAC address in the packet: encapsulating the packet with a destination virtual tunnel endpoint ('VTEP') address retrieved from a mapping of VTEP-labels onto VTEP addresses; and causing providing the packet from the egress interface of the host that hosts the VM to a source host that hosts a source guest virtual machine (“GVM”).