Patent ID: 8902743
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling an electronic privately addressable source to be publicly addressable comprising: receiving packets from a tenant virtual machine at a policy routing component; determining if the packets are destined for Internet; determining if the packets contain a private address as a source; if the packets are destined for the Internet and contain the private address as the source, communicating the packets through a network address translation device wherein the network address translation device is identified by a first virtual IP address; encapsulating the packets with the first virtual IP address as the destination address; communicating the packets to a first server or load balancer that handles packets addressed to the first virtual IP address, at the first server or load balancer, receiving the packets; determining if the packets are destined for the first virtual IP address of the network address translation device; if the packets are destined for the first virtual IP address: if the packets are destined for the public IP address chosen above: