Patent ID: 11909648
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
configuring, at a first host, an overlay channel for sending packets to check whether a failure has occurred at an active edge services gateway workload at a second host, wherein the first host and a second host are connected via a layer 3 network;
generating, at the first host, a packet to check whether the failure has occurred at the active edge services gateway workload at the second host;, encapsulating the packet; and
sending, from a standby edge services gateway workload on the first host, the encapsulated packet to the active edge services gateway workload on the second host using the overlay channel via the layer 3 network, wherein the packet is decapsulated and forwarded to the active edge services gateway workload at the second host;
based on information received from the sending, determining the active edge services gateway workload has failed.