System and method for dynamic mac learning
AssigneeNutanix, Inc.
InventorsArunkumar Navasivasakthivelsamy, Gregory A. Smith, Uzui Li
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Abstract
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to determine that a first packet, received from a first VM on a first host, has a destination address associated with a second VM on the first host, send the first packet to a service-focused bridge, generate a rule to redirect the first packet to the second VM based on the destination address, and generate execute the rule in response to receiving the first packet from the service-focused bridge.
Claims21
An apparatus comprising a processor having programmed instructions to:
- determine that a first packet, received from a first VM on a first host, has a destination address associated with a second VM on the first host;
- send the first packet to a service-focused bridge;
- generate a rule to redirect the first packet to the second VM based on the destination address;
- and
- execute the rule in response to receiving the first packet from the service-focused bridge.
A method comprising:
- determining, by a processor, that a first packet, received from a first VM on a first host, has a destination address associated with a second VM on the first host;
- sending, by the processor, the first packet to a service-focused bridge;
- generating, by the processor, a rule to redirect the first packet to the second VM based on the destination address;
- and
- executing, by the processor, the rule in response to receiving the first packet from the service-focused bridge.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium with computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform a process comprising:
- determining that a first packet, received from a first VM on a first host, has a destination address associated with a second VM on the first host;
- sending the first packet to a service-focused bridge;
- generating a rule to redirect the first packet to the second VM based on the destination address;
- and
- executing the rule in response to receiving the first packet from the service-focused bridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.