Patent ID: 11962493
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for forwarding data messages at a plurality of edge gateways of a logical network that process data messages between the logical network and an external network, the method comprising:
at a first one of the edge gateways:
receiving a data message from the logical network, the data message having an external address as a destination address;
based on the external destination address, applying a default route to the data message that routes the data message to a second one of the edge gateways and specifies a first output interface of the first edge gateway for the data message; and
after routing the data message, applying a stored network address translation (NAT) entry that (i) modifies a source address of the data message to be a public NAT address associated with the first edge gateway and (ii) redirects the modified data message to a second output interface of the first edge gateway instead of the first output interface of the first edge gateway.