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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Usha Sharma, Fremont, CA (US);
Surinder Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed method for tunneling socket calls across operating systems may include (1) intercepting a socket call issued by an application running on a first operating system, (2) determining that the socket call is directed to a network interface that is (A) accessible to a second operating system installed on a virtual machine running on the first operating system and (B) inaccessible to the first operating system and then, in response to determining that the socket call is directed to the network interface, (3) tunneling the socket call to the second operating system installed on the virtual machine, and (4) executing the socket call within the second operating system to initiate at least one networking action with respect to the network interface on behalf of the application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.