Patent ID: 11902164
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. An edge service gateway implemented in a computer network and configured to implement virtual tunnel interface teaming approach to achieve load balance and redundancy in virtual private networks (“VPNs”), the edge service gateway comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memory units; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing one or more computer instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform:
receiving configuration data;
based on the configuration data, configuring a first bonded virtual tunnel interface (“bonded VTI”) on a first gateway;
establishing a plurality of VPN tunnels between the first bonded VTI and a second bonded VTI configured on a second gateway;
generating, from the plurality of VPN tunnels, an Internet Protocol Security (“IPsec”) VPN tunnel between the first bonded VTI and the second bonded VTI; and
enabling communications of IPsec VPN traffic between the first gateway and the second gateway via the IPsec VPN tunnel.