公开(公告)号：US20200236039A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-23

申请号：US16253935

申请日：2019-01-22

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Maheedhar NALLAPAREDDY ,  Akshay KATREKAR ,  Aarti LOLAGE ,  Nikhil RAJGURU ,  Shyam RAMACHANDRAN ,  Tanmay KUMAR

IPC: H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/931

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for decentralizing control plane operations in a network environment that includes transport nodes configured to implement a logical overlay network. A method includes transmitting a global list of transport nodes to each of the plurality of transport nodes from a management plane, the global list including an ordered list of the plurality of transport nodes. The method also includes transmitting a neighbor index value to each of the plurality of transport nodes, where the transport nodes each compute a corresponding list of neighbor transport nodes based on the neighbor index value and the global list of transport nodes. The method also includes, based on determining an update to a state of the logical overlay network has occurred by a first transport node, transmitting an update message from the first transport node to each transport node in the first transport node's list of neighbor transport nodes.