Patent ID: 11917044
Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A system comprising:
a plurality of host machines that each comprise a virtual switch for forwarding packets between virtual machines that reside on the host machines, wherein each virtual machine is assigned to a private allocated network (PAN), wherein virtual machines on a same PAN communicate with each other and not with virtual machines on different PANs; and
a controller for generating, for each host machine in the plurality of host machines, a set of addressing mode tables that specify rules for forwarding packets between virtual machines in a PAN and distributing the addressing mode tables to the host machines,
wherein each host machine receives from the controller an addressing mode table for each PAN to which any one of its virtual machines belongs, wherein a first host machine and a second host machine receive different addressing mode tables for a particular PAN.