Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transparent demilitarized zone providing stateful service between physical and logical networks
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Application No.: US16742685Application Date: 2020-01-14
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Publication No.: US10938594B1Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Jayant Jain , Mike Parsa , Xinhua Hong , Subrahmanyam Manuguri , Anirban Sengupta
- 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: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/46

Abstract:
Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for providing a stateful service at a network edge device (e.g., an NSX edge) that has a plurality of north-facing interfaces (e.g., interfaces to an external network) and a plurality of corresponding south-facing interfaces (e.g., interfaces to a logical network). In some embodiments, the network edge device receives data messages from a first gateway device from a logical network, provides the stateful network service to the data message, and forwards the data message towards the destination through a corresponding interface connected to a physical network.
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