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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Nicholas Shelly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ethan J. Jackson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/743 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/7453 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a forwarding element that forwards packets. The method receives a packet and performs a hash lookup operation on one or more hash tables to find a matching rule for a packet. The method consults a common match data set to generate a wildcard mask. The method generates a flow based on the matching rule and the wildcard mask. The flow is used to process other packets that match each bit which is un-wildcarded.