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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2014
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ethan J. Jackson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jarno Rajahalme, Belmont, CA (US);
Nicholas Shelly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a forwarding element that forwards packets. The method receives a packet. The method consults a tree structure to generate a wildcard mask. The consulting includes traversing the tree structure by tracing a set of bits from the packet header and un-wildcarding the corresponding set of bits from the wildcard mask. The method identifies a matching rule for the packet. The method generates a flow based on the matching rule and the wildcard mask. The flow is used to process each other packet that matches each un-wildcarded bit of the flow.