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

Claim 14:
15. A first host comprising:
one or more computer processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions, that when executed, control the one or more computer processors to be operable for:
configuring an overlay channel for sending packets to check whether a failure has occurred at an active edge services gateway workload on a second host, wherein the first host and a second host are connected via a layer 3 network;
generating a packet to check whether the failure has occurred at the active edge services gateway workload;
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.