公开(公告)号：US11902164B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US17694586

申请日：2022-03-14

Applicant: VMware, LLC

Inventor： Yong Wang ,  Jia Yu ,  David Leroy

IPC: H04L47/125 ,  H04L9/40

CPC classification number: H04L47/125 ,  H04L63/0272 ,  H04L63/164

Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for using virtual tunnel interface teaming to achieve load balance and redundancy in virtual private networks (“VPNs”) is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a gateway, configuration data from a control plane; based on the configuration data, configuring on the gateway a bonded virtual tunnel interface (“bonded VTI”) having a plurality of slave virtual tunnel interfaces (“slave VTIs”); configuring a plurality of VPN tunnels between the plurality of slave VTIs configured on the gateway and a plurality of slave VTIs configured on a remote gateway; configuring an IPsec VPN tunnel between the bonded VTI configured on the gateway and a corresponding bonded VTI configured on the remote gateway; logically combining the plurality of VPN tunnels into the IPsec VPN tunnel; and enabling communications of IPsec VPN traffic via the IPsec VPN tunnel.