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

Claim 8:
9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, 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
modifying the ARP request to replace the source address in the ARP request with the address of the DR instance includes: modifying 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.