Balancing of forwarding and address resolution in overlay networks

A network node comprising a processor configured to maintain a plurality of mapping entries for one or more virtual network instances, receive a data packet within a first virtual network instance, wherein the data packet comprises an inner destination address, match the inner destination address wi...

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Hauptverfasser: Qu XiaoRong, Dunbar Linda
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Zusammenfassung:A network node comprising a processor configured to maintain a plurality of mapping entries for one or more virtual network instances, receive a data packet within a first virtual network instance, wherein the data packet comprises an inner destination address, match the inner destination address with one of the mapping entries, obtain an outer destination address that corresponds to the matched mapping entry, encapsulate the data packet with the outer destination address, and forward the encapsulated data packet based on the outer destination address, wherein the mapping entries maps out all of the addresses for a plurality of end nodes that participate in the first virtual network instance.