Patent ID: 11863514
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 15, wherein the the first gateway device is local to a source machine from which the data message originated, wherein during an Internet key exchange (IKE) session with a second gateway device that is local to a destination machine to which the data message is destined and before receiving the data message, the program further comprises sets of instructions for:
creating a security association (SA) group object within the first gateway device that points to the plurality of secure connections; and
enabling a mixed mode for each of the plurality of secure connections such that each of the secure connections securely encapsulates (i) data messages of the first traffic type associated with the first protocol and (ii) data messages of the second traffic type associated with the second protocol.