公开(公告)号：US20220029950A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-27

申请号：US17461900

申请日：2021-08-30

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Sami Boutros ,  W. Andrew Lambeth ,  Jayant Jain ,  Mani Kancherla

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for implementing a logical network with one or more logical forwarding elements (LFEs), each with multiple logical ports. Each LFE in some embodiments is implemented by several physical forwarding elements (PFEs) operating on several devices. On a host computer executing a particular machine connected to a PFE implementing a particular LFE, the method identifies an address discovery message associating a particular network address (e.g., a layer 2 (L2) address or media access control (MAC) address) of the particular machine with a another network address (e.g., a layer 3 (L3) or an Internet Protocol (IP) address) of the particular machine. The method identifies an LFE logical port associated with the particular machine, stores in an encapsulation header an identifier that identifies this port, encapsulates the address discovery data message with this encapsulation header, and then forwards the encapsulated message to a set of one or more devices implementing the LFE. Each device in the set of devices extracts the logical port identifier from the encapsulation header and stores this logical port identifier for use in processing data messages associated with the particular machine.

公开(公告)号：US20220021615A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-20

申请号：US16931207

申请日：2020-07-16

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Sami Boutros ,  Mani Kancherla ,  Jayant Jain ,  Anirban Sengupta

IPC: H04L12/749 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/715 ,  H04L12/66

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for facilitating a distributed SNAT (dSNAT) middlebox service operation for a first network at a host computer in the first network on which the dSNAT middlebox service operation is performed and a gateway device between the first network and a second network. The novel methods enable dSNAT that provides stateful SNAT at multiple host computers, thus avoiding the bottleneck problem associated with providing stateful SNAT at gateways and also significantly reduces the need to redirect packets received at the wrong host by using a capacity of off-the-shelf gateway devices to perform IPv6 encapsulation for IPv4 packets and assigning locally unique IPv6 addresses to each host executing a dSNAT middlebox service instance that are used by the gateway device.