Patent ID: 11902160
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. The host computing device of claim 1, wherein the EVPN encapsulation/decapsulation data path of the cloud native virtual router is configured as a Host Routed Bridging (HRB) data path comprising:
a layer two (L2) virtual routing and forwarding table (VRF) storing media access control (MAC) addresses and L2 forwarding information for one or more L2 networks associated with the one or more containerized user-level applications executing on the host computing device;
one or more L2 bridge domains (BDs), each of the L2 bridge domains corresponding to a different one of the L2 networks; and
one or more internet routing and bridging (IRB) interfaces, each of the one or more IRB interfaces providing a data plane forwarding path between the layer three (L3) virtual routing and forwarding table and a different one of the one or more L2 bridge domains.