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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2020
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Uday Masurekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ronghua Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Mani Kancherla, Cupertino, CA (US);
Minjal Agarwal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for providing dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services to different data compute nodes (e.g., virtual machines) that belong to different logical networks (e.g., for different tenants in a datacenter). In some embodiments, the method inserts a logical network identifier (LNI) value to each DHCP packet and forwards the packet to a DHCP server module for processing the DHCP request. Based on the LNI value, the DHCP server of some embodiments identifies the logical network from which the DHCP packet is received. The DHCP server then provides the requested DHCP service (e.g., assigning an IP address to a data compute node that has originated the DHCP packet, assigning a domain name, etc.) according to a DHCP service configuration for the identified logical network.