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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2012
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Casado, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Pankaj Thakkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ronghua Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel J. Wendlandt, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Casado, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Pankaj Thakkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ronghua Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel J. Wendlandt, Portola Valley, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A network control system that includes a first set of network controllers for (i) receiving a logical control plane definition of a logical switching element that couples to both a first set of network hosts in a first domain and a second set of network hosts in a second domain, (ii) translating the logical control plane definition of the logical switching element into a first set of flow entries in a first logical forwarding plane, and (iii) translating the first set of flow entries into a second set of flow entries in a second logical forwarding plane. The network control system includes a second set of network controllers in the first domain for (i) receiving a portion of the second set of flow entries and (ii) translating the portion of the second set of flow entries into a third set of flow entries in a physical control plane.