Patent ID: 11902164
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first bonded VTI comprises a plurality of slave virtual tunnel interfaces (“slave VTIs”); and
wherein the method further comprises:
upon detecting a packet:
selecting a particular slave VTI, of the plurality slave VTIs;
selecting a particular VPN tunnel, from the plurality of VPN tunnels, that backs up the particular slave VTI;
generating an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the packet at least with one or more headers comprising underlay IP addresses of the particular VPN tunnel; and
relaying the encapsulated packet onto an output port of the particular slave VTI to enable transmission of the encapsulated packet to the second gateway.