Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distribution of tunnel endpoint mapping information
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Application No.: US14956756Application Date: 2015-12-02
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Publication No.: US10069646B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: Jianjun Shen , Alexander Tessmer , Mukesh Hira , Pankaj Thakkar , Hua Wang
- Applicant: Nicira, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
- Current Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Adeli LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/46
- IPC: H04L12/46 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for a controller for mapping and sharing up to date configuration information for a logical network comprising managed forwarding elements having multiple tunnel endpoints. The method identifies a data compute node for operation on a host machine that includes a managed forwarding element (MFE) having multiple tunnel endpoints. The data compute node belongs to a particular logical network. The method identifies multiple other data compute nodes belonging to the particular logical network. The method distributes to the MFE (i) a mapping of each data compute node of the other data compute nodes to an identifier for a group of tunnel endpoints associated with the data compute node and (ii) a mapping of each of the identifiers to a list of tunnel endpoints. The MFE uses the mappings to encapsulate packets sent from the data compute node for transmission to other MFEs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170163442A1 DISTRIBUTION OF TUNNEL ENDPOINT MAPPING INFORMATION Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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