Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Application based egress interface selection
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Application No.: US16048680Application Date: 2018-07-30
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Publication No.: US10721338B2Publication Date: 2020-07-21
- Inventor: Madhusudhan Ravi , Wilson Wang , Rajeev Nair
- 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: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L12/725 ; H04L12/803

Abstract:
A method of selecting an egress interface for a source process running on an electronic device is provided. The device implements a TCP/IP stack utilized by a plurality of applications for sending network packets. The method receives a packet from a particular application in the plurality of applications to send to a network destination over a socket tagged with an identifier of the particular application. The method compares the socket tag with a set of network egress interface tags. Each network egress interface tag is associated with a network egress interface in a plurality of network egress interfaces. Each network egress interface tag includes the identifier of an application that utilizes the network egress interface. The method selects a network egress interface with a tag that matches the socket tag. The method sends the packet to the network destination through the selected network egress interface.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190068759A1 APPLICATION BASED EGRESS INTERFACE SELECTION Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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