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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2024
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kedar Shrikrishna Patwardhan, Urbana, IL (US);
Pratik Vijay Panjwani, San Jose, CA (US);
Rutuja Umesh Madhure, Pune, IN;
Sunil Khushal Patil, Pune, IN;
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computing system is provided that enables efficient layer-2 traffic forwarding. During operation, the computing system can determine that a packet is from a first virtual machine (VM) running on the computing system and destined to a second VM running on a second computing system. The computing system can determine a first transit Internet Protocol (IP) address of a first VM and a second transit IP address of the second VM. The computing system can then modify the packet to replace existing media access control (MAC) addresses in the layer-2 header with MAC addresses of the computing system and the second computing system. The computing system can also modify the packet to replace the source and destination IP addresses in the layer-3 header with the first and second transit IP addresses, respectively. Subsequently, the computing system can determine an egress port based on the modified layer-2 header.
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