Patent ID: 11893409
Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for securing a managed forwarding element (MFE) that executes on a particular virtual machine (VM) executing in a host computer, the method comprising:
receiving a notification that the MFE is loaded on the particular VM, the MFE for performing forwarding operations to forward packets between the particular VM and a plurality of other VMs;
securing the MFE by isolating, in a physical memory of the host computer, executable code and data of the MFE from executable code and data of other applications that execute on the particular VM; and
upon receiving the notification, authenticating the loaded MFE in order to ensure that the executable code and data of the MFE that is loaded on the particular VM is identical to original executable code and data of the MFE.