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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2013
Applicants:
Yi Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Meng Xu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Choung-yaw Michael Shieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yi Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Meng Xu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Choung-Yaw Michael Shieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
VARMOUR NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 69/166 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for IP packet tunneling in a network. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, at a first network device, a first IP packet of a IP connection; creating a second IP packet by replacing information in a field in the first IP packet with a session ID identifying the IP connection; and forwarding, by the first network device, the second IP packet to the second network device in the distributed network environment.