Patent ID: 9331938
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit manages a set of managed forwarding elements that forward data between machines, the program comprising sets of instructions for: configuring, by a network controller, first, second, and third managed forwarding elements to operate in first, second, and third networks, respectively, the first network using first and second address spaces that at least partially overlap with each other, the second network using the first address space and the third network using the second address space, the first managed forwarding element implementing first and second logical forwarding elements, the first logical forwarding element having a first logical port that is mapped to the second managed forwarding element and the second logical forwarding element having a second logical port that is mapped to the third managed forwarding element, said configuring comprising directing the first managed forwarding element to forward a first set of data to the second managed forwarding element and a second set of data to the third managed forwarding element without exposing an address of the network controller.