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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2023
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Dustin Grant, Fall City, WA (US);
Sandeep Gupta, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sridhar Narahari, Milpitas, CA (US);
Michael J. Satterlee, Clifton Park, NY (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Distributed firewalls in a network are disclosed. Example firewall controllers disclosed herein are to instruct a first network node of a software-defined network to implement a first firewall instance of a distributed firewall, the first network node to implement the first firewall instance with a first virtual machine. Disclosed example firewall controllers are also to configure a second network node of the software-defined network to route network traffic through the first firewall instance and, after at least some of the network traffic is dropped by the first firewall instance, instruct the second network node to implement a second firewall instance of the distributed firewall, the second network node to implement the second firewall instance with a second virtual machine.