US 11,689,499 B2
Management of endpoint address discovery in a software defined networking environment
Parasuramji Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US); Rishi Kanth Alapati, Dublin, CA (US); Shireesh Kumar Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Aditi Vutukuri, Milpitas, CA (US); Chidambareswaran Raman, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Margaret Angeline Petrus, San Jose, CA (US); Anuprem Chalvadi, Santa Clara, CA (US); Pallavi Moghe, Mountain View, CA (US); and Weiming Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/466,165.
Application 17/466,165 is a continuation of application No. 16/804,638, filed on Feb. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,115,379.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/812,158, filed on Feb. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400014 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 61/5014 (2022.01); H04L 61/103 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01); H04L 45/64 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 61/5014 (2022.05) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method of managing Internet Protocol (IP) address discovery in a software defined network (SDN) environment, the method comprising:
in a control plane, receiving an IP address discovery configuration from a management plane;
in the control plane, obtaining a discovered list from a hypervisor of one or more IP addresses associated with one or more logical ports, wherein the one or more IP addresses correspond to one or more overlay network addresses associated with one or more virtual nodes coupled to the one or more logical ports; and
in the control plane, updating one or more realized lists for the one or more logical ports based on the discovered list and the IP address discovery configuration.