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Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2022
Applicant:

Cloudflare, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Nicholas Alexander Wondra, Savoy, IL (US);

Assignee:

CLOUDFLARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 63/029 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/0485 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Traffic is received at an interface of a compute server. Identity information associated with the traffic is determined including an identifier of a customer to which the traffic is attributable. An egress policy configured for the first customer is used to determine whether the traffic is allowed to be transmitted to a destination where that destination is a resource of a second customer. If the traffic is allowed to be transmitted, the traffic and identity information is transmitted over a cross-customer GRE tunnel to a namespace of the second costumer on the compute server. An ingress policy configured for the second customer is used to determine whether the traffic is allowed to be transmitted to the destination, and if it is, then the traffic is transmitted.


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