Patent ID: 9374310
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of decreasing inefficient traffic flows in an information handling system, the method comprising: receiving first identifying information at a first network device from a second network device, the first identifying information identifying a default gateway of a virtual machine on a remote server, the first network device being part of a first set of network devices and the second network device being part of a second set of network devices providing the default gateway; installing a local destination address entry that includes the first identifying information in a forwarding information base of the first network device for a relocated instance of the virtual machine running on a local server beneath and coupled to the first network device; receiving a data packet from the relocated instance of the virtual machine, the data packet including a second identifying information; and in response to the second identifying information matching the local destination address entry that includes the first identifying information in the forwarding information base of the first network device, forwarding the data packet into a layer 3 network from the first network device, the first network device acting as a proxy gateway on behalf of the default gateway based on the first identifying information.