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

Claim 7:
8. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing one or more computer instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform:
detecting, a packet that is sent from a client application, executing on a first machine, toward a server application executing on a 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.