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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2023
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Navdeep Bhatia, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sebastiano Borgione, Seattle, WA (US);
Prasanna Parthasarathy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Chih-Yen Wang, British Columbia, CA;
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Operations include: identifying a first dataflow associated with a particular communications protocol; evaluating the first dataflow to determine that the first dataflow meets a hardware-based Network Address Translation (NAT) usage criteria; responsive to determining that the first dataflow meets the hardware-based NAT usage criteria, executing a set of hardware-based NAT operations to process a first set of packets corresponding to the first dataflow; identifying a second dataflow associated with the same particular communications protocol; evaluating the second dataflow to determine that the second dataflow does not meet the hardware-based NAT usage criteria; and responsive to determining that the second dataflow does not meet the hardware-based NAT usage criteria, executing a first set of software-based NAT operations to process a second set of packets corresponding to the second dataflow.