Patent ID: 11895032
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
determining a packet is fragmented into multiple fragmented packets in a flow between a first workload and a second workload, wherein the multiple fragmented packets include an inner header that is encapsulated with an outer header;
generating an outer source port in the outer header using layer 3 information from the inner header, wherein the layer 3 information is associated with a source address of the first workload and a destination address of the second workload;
encapsulating a fragmented packet with the outer header, wherein the outer header includes an outer source port value that is generated using the layer 3 information; and
using information from the inner header to generate the source port in the outer header of a packet from the first workload.