Patent ID: 9577909
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for asymmetrically routing traffic flows comprising: authenticating, by each of a plurality of network appliances including a first and a second network appliance, each other network appliance; establishing, by each network appliance, a peering relationship with each of the other authenticated network appliances so as to define a cluster of peered network appliances, exchanging, by each peered network appliance, traffic flow state information including (i) a source port and a destination port corresponding to each of one or more received traffic flows and (ii) an action corresponding to each of the one or more traffic flows to be taken by a member of the cluster upon receipt of network traffic associated with the traffic flow; routing, by the first network appliance, a t least one of the traffic flows in a first direction through a first network; and routing, by the second network appliance, the at least one of the traffic flows in a second direction through a second network, wherein the second network is different from the first network.