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Managed gateways peering with external router to attract ingress packets

  • US 9,225,597 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2014
  • Issued: 12/29/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A network system comprising:

  • a first plurality of host machines hosting virtual machines that connect to each other through a logical network; and

    a second plurality of host machines hosting virtualized containers that operate as gateways to process packets entering the logical network from external sources, wherein each of the virtualized containers advertises itself to an external router as a next hop for packets entering the logical network such that the external router uses equal-cost multi-path forwarding to distribute the packets across the virtualized containers on the second plurality of host machines.

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