Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Assignment of unique physical network addresses for logical network addresses
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Application No.: US15640376Application Date: 2017-06-30
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Publication No.: US10681000B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Yusheng Wang , Donghai Han
- Applicant: Nicira, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
- Current Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Adeli LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/12
- IPC: H04L29/12

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller that manages multiple logical networks implemented by multiple managed forwarding elements (MFEs) operating on multiple host machines. The method receives a notification from a particular MFE that an interface corresponding to a logical port of a logical forwarding element has connected to the particular MFE and has a particular logical network address. The method assigns a unique physical network address to the interface. Each of multiple interfaces connected to the particular MFE is assigned a different physical network address. The method provides the assigned unique physical network address to the particular MFE for the particular MFE to convert data messages sent from the particular logical network address to have the unique physical network address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190007364A1 ASSIGNMENT OF UNIQUE PHYSICAL NETWORK ADDRESSES FOR LOGICAL NETWORK ADDRESSES Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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