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

Claim 22:
23. The method of claim 21, 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, the method further comprising configuring the virtual BITW device to send at least a portion of the second packets received via the second interface by configuring the virtual BITW device to:
modify the source IP address of the second packets to be the private IP address of the first interface of the virtual BITW device;
apply, using the fast path, the packet-filtering logic to the second packets; and
send, via the first interface of the virtual BITW device, at least a portion of the second packets to the NAT gateway.