Patent ID: 11888735
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method for selecting an egress point for accessing an external network associated with a distributed logical router that is distributed across at least a first computing device and a second computing device, the method comprising:
receiving, by an instance of a logical router at the first computing device, a selection of the instance of the logical router at the first computing device as a preferred egress point for the logical router;
generating, by the instance of the logical router at the first computing device, a first preference value based on first timing information that changes over time; and
advertising, by the instance of the logical router at first computing device, identification information for the instance of the logical router at the first computing device and the first preference value to other instances of logical routers at other computing devices to indicate the instance of the logical router at the first computing device is the preferred egress point, wherein an instance of the logical router at a second computing device compares the first preference value to a second preference value of the second computing device determine whether to set the identification information for the instance of the logical router at the first computing device as a new preferred egress point, the second preference value based on second timing information that changes over time at a different rate than the first timing information.