Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Using headerspace analysis to identify unneeded distributed firewall rules
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Application No.: US16055152Application Date: 2018-08-06
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Publication No.: US10708231B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Amar Padmanabhan , Amre Shakimov , Anupam Chanda
- 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: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for identifying unnecessary firewall rules for a distributed firewall of a logical network. The method identifies a firewall policy for network traffic of the logical network. The firewall policy includes a set of firewall rules. The method generates a set of data for implementing the firewall policy on a set of managed forwarding elements that implement the logical network. The method analyzes potential network traffic based on the generated set of data to identify a subset of unnecessary data. The method identifies a subset of unnecessary firewall rules of the set of firewall rules that corresponds to the subset of unnecessary data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180375832A1 USING HEADERSPACE ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY UNNEEDED DISTRIBUTED FIREWALL RULES Public/Granted day:2018-12-27
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