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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2011
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pankaj Thakkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bryan J. Fulton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pankaj Thakkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bryan J. Fulton, San Francisco, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A network controller for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network that includes the managed switching elements. The network controller is further for creating a logical switching element to be implemented in a set of managed switching elements. The network controller includes a set of modules for receiving input data specifying a logical switching element and for creating, based on the received input data, a set of logical switch constructs for the logical switching element by performing a set of database join operations. At least one of the logical switch constructs is for facilitating non-forwarding behavior of the logical switching element.