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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
May. 10, 2024
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Tsirkin, Ra'anana, IL;
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A network device driver (NDD) associated with a network interface device (NID) of a computing device processes a tunnel packet received by the NID and originating from a source device. The tunnel packet includes a tunnel packet header, a user datagram protocol (UDP) header, and a payload including a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) packet. The NDD accesses a data structure that corresponds to the NID. The NDD extracts a value from a field of the tunnel packet based on information in the tunnel packet and on information in the data structure. The NDD selects, based on the value, a first downstream destination from a plurality of downstream destinations operable to further process the tunnel packet, and causes the tunnel packet to be subsequently processed by the first downstream destination.