- Patent Title: Maintaining network membership when disconnected from a controller
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Application No.: US15654195Application Date: 2017-07-19
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Publication No.: US11968078B2Publication Date: 2024-04-23
- Inventor: Alexander Tessmer , Ganesan Chandrashekhar , Vivek Agarwal , Subin Cyriac Mathew , Ankur Kumar Sharma
- Applicant: Nicira, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: Nicira, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Nicira, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: King Intellectual Asset Management
- Main IPC: H04L41/0668
- IPC: H04L41/0668 ; H04L43/0811 ; H04L45/64

Abstract:
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems maintain network membership information for a host when it is disconnected from a controller. When the host detects a loss of connectivity with the network controller, the host identifies and selects one or more hosts that are members of a control logical network. The control logical network includes hosts configured to run data compute nodes that are members of the overlay network, regardless of whether or not each of the hosts is currently running a data compute node that is a member of the overlay network. The host then sends any broadcast, unknown destination, or multicast (BUM) data packet(s) to the selected one or more hosts.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190028328A1 MAINTAINING NETWORK MEMBERSHIP WHEN DISCONNECTED FROM A CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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