Patent ID: 9473394
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a virtual router of a computing device for one or more virtual networks, a tunnel packet comprising an outer header and an inner packet that defines a packet flow, wherein the virtual router receives the tunnel packet from a switch fabric coupled to the computing device and comprising a plurality of switches interconnected to form a physical network that switches packets for the one or more virtual networks; determining, based at least on the outer header, that the packet is associated with a virtual network of the one or more virtual networks; determining, by the virtual router, a packet flow defined by the inner packet does not match any flow table entry of a flow table that identifies active flows only for the virtual network; and in response to determining the packet flow defined by the inner packet does not match any flow table entry of the flow table for the virtual network: