Patent ID: 9571394
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a virtual router of a computing device for one or more virtual networks, a plurality of inbound tunnel packets from a physical network; determining, by the virtual router, whether the inbound tunnel packets include a same virtual network identifier that identifies a virtual network of the virtual networks; in response to determining the inbound tunnel packets include the same virtual network identifier, and without separately routing the inbound tunnel packets, aggregating the inbound tunnel packets to generate an aggregate tunnel packet comprising a payload that merges payloads of the inbound tunnel packets and a header that includes a single instance of the same virtual network identifier without including packet headers from each of the inbound tunnel packets; and routing, by the virtual router, the aggregate tunnel packet to a host associated with the identified virtual network as if the aggregate tunnel packet were received from the physical network.