US 11,748,148 B2
Logical processing for containers
Somik Behera, San Francisco, CA (US); Donghai Han, Beijing (CN); Jianjun Shen, Redwood City, CA (US); and Justin Pettit, Los Altos Hills, CA (US)
Assigned to NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on May 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/827,925.
Application 17/827,925 is a continuation of application No. 16/877,264, filed on May 18, 2020, granted, now 11,347,537.
Application 16/877,264 is a continuation of application No. 15/959,252, filed on Apr. 22, 2018, granted, now 10,671,424, issued on Jun. 2, 2020.
Application 15/959,252 is a continuation of application No. 14/839,754, filed on Aug. 28, 2015, granted, now 9,971,624, issued on May 15, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/162,774, filed on May 17, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0291943 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/586 (2022.01); H04L 69/329 (2022.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01)
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
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.