Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Link local address assignment for interfaces of overlay distributed router
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Application No.: US16202411Application Date: 2018-11-28
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Publication No.: US10764239B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Aviraj Saha
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Adeli LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L12/713

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a novel method for assigning a unique internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) link-local address to each interface of a software router implementing a plurality of logical interfaces for a corresponding plurality of logical networks. In some embodiments, the method, for each logical interface, determines a logical network identifier for a logical network corresponding to the logical interface and generates the link-local address based on that logical network identifier (e.g., a virtual network identifier (VNI)).
Public/Granted literature
- US20200169530A1 LINK LOCAL ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT FOR INTERFACES OF OVERLAY DISTRIBUTED ROUTER Public/Granted day:2020-05-28
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