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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2024
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mingfei Peng, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Brian Russell Kean, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Srivatsan Rajagopal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Uttam Ramesh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ketan Gunawant Kulkarni, San Jose, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Anycast IP addressing and policy-based forwarding are implemented so that resources deployed in association with different accounts of a tenant but have overlapping IP addresses appear distinct to the tenant. A service that executes on a network controller configures a DHCP address pool for an account for which associated resources are indicated for deployment. The service also orchestrates instantiation of one or more connectors configured to front the resource(s) and allocates an anycast IP address to the connector(s) that is unique with respect to other connectors that front resources associated with the same account or different accounts. The service then creates a policy-based forwarding rule to forward network traffic originating from an IP address within the account's DHCP address pool and with a destination address that matches the resource(s) IP address to the anycast IP address allocated to the connector(s) that fronts the resources.