Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multicast helper to link virtual extensible LANs
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Application No.: US16418073Application Date: 2019-05-21
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Publication No.: US10547463B2Publication Date: 2020-01-28
- Inventor: Gabriel Iszlai , Jun Jie Nan , Hong Jun Tu , Guang Yi Xu
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., LPA
- Agent Patrick J. Daugherty
- Main IPC: H04L12/18
- IPC: H04L12/18 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
Computerized aspects monitor listening virtual local area network ports for multicast packets from hypervisor virtual machines that meet a multicast group definition, and retrieve source addresses for original hypervisor sources of detected ones of the multicast packets, bind the retrieved addresses to the multicast packets to generate encapsulated packets, and forward the encapsulated packets as user datagram protocol unicast packets to a destination address of a virtual extensible helper daemon defined for a destination hypervisor of a second virtual local area network. The destination address meets the multicast group definition for the first virtual local area network, and the second virtual local area network is geographically remote from and different from the first virtual local area network, and thus the aspects send the first user datagram protocol unicast packet through an internet protocol router to the designated receiving port.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190273626A1 MULTICAST HELPER TO LINK VIRTUAL EXTENSIBLE LANS Public/Granted day:2019-09-05
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