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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2024
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alexander Tessmer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mukesh Hira, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rajiv Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Ram Dular Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Xuan Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hua Wang, Beijing, CN;
VMWare LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A novel method for performing replication of messages in a network that bridges one or more physical networks to an overlay logical network is provided. A physical gateway provides bridging between network nodes of a physical network and virtual machines in the overlay logical network by serving as an endpoint of the overlay logical network. The physical gateway does not replicate messages from the bridged physical network to destination endpoints in the overlay logical network directly, but instead tunnels the message-to-be-replicated to a designated tunnel endpoint in the overlay logical network. The designated tunnel endpoint in turn replicates the message that was tunneled to it to other endpoints in the overlay logical network.