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

Claim 14:
15. A network device configured to operate as an address resolution protocol (ARP) proxy, the network device comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations to:
receive, by a distributed router (DR) instance of a logical DR that is implemented on the network device, an ARP request to resolve an address of an endpoint;
modify, by the network device, the ARP request to replace a source address in the ARP request with an address of the DR instance;
broadcast, by the network device, the modified ARP request to a logical network that includes the endpoint and that is connected to the DR instance through a layer-2 network extension provided by the network device configured as an edge;
receive, by the network device, an ARP response to the modified ARP request; and
modify, by the network device, the ARP response to replace a destination in the ARP response with the source address of the ARP request.