Patent ID: 11902240
Assignee: CENTRIPETAL NETWORKS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. The cloud computing network of claim 1, wherein:
the second virtual device is configured to send the second packets, wherein the second packets indicate the private IP address of the second virtual device as a source IP address and indicate a public IP address of the host as a destination IP address; and
the virtual BITW device is configured to:
receive, via the second interface, the second packets;
modify the source IP address of the second packets to be the private IP address of the first interface of the virtual BITW device;
apply, using the fast path, the packet-filtering logic to the second packets; and
send, based on the packet-filtering logic and via the first interface, at least a portion of the second packets to the NAT gateway.