Patent ID: 11936612
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. The network device of claim 15, wherein:
the logical DR is implemented as a plurality of DR instances on a corresponding plurality of hosts, including the DR instance implemented on the network device as a first DR instance implemented on the edge amongst the plurality of hosts,
each DR instance of the plurality of DR instances include a DR port having a same internet protocol (IP) address and a respective different media access control (MAC) address, and
the operations to modify the ARP request to replace the source address in the ARP request with the address of the DR instance include operations to: modify the ARP request to replace the MAC address of the DR port of a second DR instance, amongst the plurality of DR instances and implemented on a first host amongst the plurality of hosts, with the MAC address of the DR port of the first DR instance implemented on the edge.