ROUTING HIGH VOLUME PACKET STREAMS IN A VIRTUAL NETWORK

A computing device may receive a first packet addressed to a destination node. The device may check a packet counter to determine if the counter exceeds a threshold, the counter recording a number of packets addressed to the destination node that have been received during a first time period. The device may in response to the packet counter exceeding the threshold: send, by the computing device, a query to an intermediate node; generate, by the device, a query flag in response to sending the query. The query flag can indicate that a query has been sent to the intermediate node. A reply from the intermediate node can be received by the device. The reply can identify a set of processes that the intermediate node is configured to perform on the first packet. The set of processes can be applied by the device to the first packet.