DISTRIBUTED NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION OVER NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210152516A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-20

    申请号:US16685969

    申请日:2019-11-15

    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for implementing network address translation as a distributed service over the nodes of a logical network fabric, such as a software-defined network fabric. A method includes registering, by an edge node of a network, an IP address of a client device. The method further includes forwarding, by the edge node, the registered IP address to a control plane of the network. The method further includes checking, by the control plane, a network address translation policy. The method further includes recording, by the control plane, translations between the registered IP address and an allocated IP address in a translation table, each of the translations being related to the edge node. The method further includes returning, by the control plane, the translations between the registered IP address and the allocated IP address to the edge node.

    Identity-based policy implementation in network address translation (NAT) environments

    公开(公告)号:US10887175B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US16502554

    申请日:2019-07-03

    Abstract: A policy server correlates information from several messages associated with a client device to implement an identity-based network access policy. A network element connected to the client device obtains an authentication message including a first network address from the client device. The network element provides the authentication device to an identity server via a Network Address Translation (NAT) device, which translates the first network address to a second network address. The network element also provides a first message including the first network address to the policy server to request an identity-based policy for network communications of the client device. The network element implements the identity-based policy authorized by the policy server.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIGRATING EXISTING ACCESS CONTROL LIST POLICIES TO INTENT BASED POLICIES AND VICE VERSA

    公开(公告)号:US20200162467A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-21

    申请号:US16368695

    申请日:2019-03-28

    Abstract: Present technology is directed to a system and method for implementing an offline scheme to automatically and efficiently transform a set of conventional IP-based Access Control Entries in a supplied configuration into compressed form that can then be represented as Object-Group based Access Control Entries. The compression is performed on contiguous blocks of the supplied Access Control List having a common prescribed filtering access. The compression is performed by iteratively selecting a data field with mismatching data values across the ACEs and merging the data values into a corresponding data field of the output ACE. The common values of other data fields are then imported to the corresponding data fields of the output ACE. The process is repeated in an iterative manner by assigning a different data field as the selected data field for each iteration round.

    IDENTITY-BASED POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (NAT) ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20190327150A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-24

    申请号:US16502554

    申请日:2019-07-03

    Abstract: A policy server correlates information from several messages associated with a client device to implement an identity-based network access policy. A network element connected to the client device obtains an authentication message including a first network address from the client device. The network element provides the authentication device to an identity server via a Network Address Translation (NAT) device, which translates the first network address to a second network address. The network element also provides a first message including the first network address to the policy server to request an identity-based policy for network communications of the client device. The network element implements the identity-based policy authorized by the policy server.

    Context export from an access point to a fabric infrastructure

    公开(公告)号:US10298717B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-21

    申请号:US15368633

    申请日:2016-12-04

    Abstract: Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a network element that is configured for receiving, from an access point, a data packet originating from a client, the data packet comprising a packet header that comprises a packet header augmented with context information; decapsulating the packet header to identify the context information; applying a client-specific policy on the packet based, at least in part, on the context information; and forwarding the packet to a next hop in the network. The network element can be part of a network, such as a datacenter fabric architecture.

    EXTRANET CONNECTIVITY IN LISP NETWORKS
    108.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190020489A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-17

    申请号:US15649479

    申请日:2017-07-13

    Abstract: A Location/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) mapping server, including: a network interface for communicating with a LISP-enabled network; a mapping database; an extranet policy table; and a shared subnetwork mapping engine (SSME), including at least a hardware platform, configured to: receive a map request from a first endpoint serviced by a first xTR, the first endpoint on a first subnetwork, the map request for a second endpoint; determine that the second endpoint is not a member of the first subnetwork; query the extranet policy table to identify a second subnetwork that the first subnetwork subscribes to, and to determine that the second endpoint is a member of the second subnetwork; and provide to the first subnetwork a routing locator (RLOC) of an xTR servicing the second endpoint.

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