Patent ID: 11902240
Assignee: CENTRIPETAL NETWORKS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 32:
33. The method of claim 31, further comprising:
sending, by the second virtual device, the second packets, wherein the second packets indicate the private IP address of the second virtual device as a source IP address and indicate a public IP address of the host as a destination IP address;
receiving, via the second interface of the virtual BITW device, the second packets;
modifying, by the virtual BITW device, the source IP address of the second packets to be the private IP address of the first interface of the virtual BITW device;
applying, using the fast path, the packet-filtering logic to the second packets; and
sending, via the first interface of the virtual BITW device, at least a portion of the second packets to the NAT gateway.