CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 69/329 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A method of configuring a first managed forwarding element (MFE) that operates on a virtual machine (VM) executing on a host computer to process packets from a set of containers operating on the VM, the method comprising:
at a first network controller executing on the VM:
identifying a logical forwarding element (LFE) to which the set of containers logically connect;
receiving a tag value that maps to the LFE; and
configuring the first MFE operating on the VM to associate data messages received from the containers operating on the VM along with the first MFE with the tag value before sending the data messages to a second MFE that executes on the host computer outside of the VM and that uses the tag value to perform logical processing associated with the LFE;
wherein a second network controller operates outside of the VM on the host computer.
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