Patent ID: 11936613
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
detecting, by a restore agent implemented in a second machine, a packet that is sent from a client application, executing on a first machine, toward a server application executing on the second machine;
determining whether a first restore rule matches the packet;
wherein the first restore rule specifies modifications to one or more loopback IP addresses in a header of the packet;
in response to determining that the first restore rule matches the packet, applying the first restore rule to the packet to translate the packet into a translated packet by at least replacing a first loopback IP address of the second machine with a source IP address of the first machine or a destination IP address of the second machine; and
providing the translated packet to a client agent implemented in the first machine to cause the client agent to transmit the translated packet to a server agent implemented in the second machine.