Patent ID: 9288081
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit implements a network controller for managing a plurality of interconnection switching elements in a network, the program comprising sets of instructions for: receiving a definition of a logical switching element that connects a set of network segments located at different segmented networks, the definition binding each logical port of the logical switching element to a different network segment, wherein each different network segment comprises a separate plurality of machines having unique destination addresses; and configuring a set of interconnection switching elements located at each of the different segmented networks to implement the logical switching element by distributing forwarding instructions to the interconnection switching elements, each of the interconnection switching elements connecting a different one of the network segments to a same interconnecting network to which each of the interconnection switching elements connects, wherein the forwarding instructions specify to forward packets having any of the destination addresses of the machines for a particular network segment through the interconnecting network to the interconnection switching element that connects the particular network segment to the interconnecting network.