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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ariel Tubaltsev, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ronghua Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin C. Basler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Serge Maskalik, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Rajiv Ramanathan, Cupertino, CA (US);
David J. Leroy, Saratoga, CA (US);
Srinivas Neginhal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kai-Wei Fan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ansis Atteka, Mountain View, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a network system. The network system includes a first set of host machines hosting virtual machines that connect to each other through a logical network. The network system includes a second set of host machines hosting virtualized containers that operate as gateways to process packets entering the logical network from external sources. Each of the virtualized containers advertises itself to an external router as a next hop for packets entering the logical network such that the external router uses equal-cost multi-path forwarding to distribute the packets across the virtualized containers on the second set of host machines.