Patent ID: 11888899
Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 21:
22. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the instructions that cause the processor to configure the whitelist set cause the processor to:
configure the network layer information in the match fields of the first flow entry to include a first network address assigned to the first workload and a second network address assigned to the destination, wherein the first workload is a first virtualized computing instance and the destination is a second virtualized computing instance;
configure the transport layer information in the match fields of the first flow entry to include a protocol, and a source port number, a destination port number, or both the source port number and the destination port number; and
configure the match fields of the first flow entry to further include port information associated with an input port that connects the first workload to the flow-based forwarding element.