Patent ID: 11968078
Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein selecting the one or more hosts that are members of the control logical network comprises:
determining that the data packet is to be transmitted to a plurality of data compute nodes in a group of hosts, the group of hosts identified by a network segment identifier;
selecting one host within the group of hosts identified by the network segment identifier; and
setting a bit in an encapsulation header of the data packet, the setting of the bit in the encapsulation header indicating to the selected one or more hosts that the first host is in a controller disconnected operating state, wherein when there is loss of connectivity between the selected one or more hosts and the network controller, the selected one or more hosts distributes replicated copies of the data packet to all hosts associated with the network segment identifier and the control logical network, and wherein when there is no loss of connectivity between the selected one or more hosts and the network controller, the selected one or more hosts distributes replicated copies of the data packet to endpoints in the first overlay network associated with the network segment identifier.