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Some embodiments provide a virtualizer for managing a plurality of managed switching
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Maintaining data stored with a packet

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Hypervisor routing between networks in a virtual networking environment

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A physical host executes a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that instantiates a source virtual
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Logical network traffic analysis

RF Lenglet, R Ramanathan, J Xiao - US Patent 10,469,342, 2019 - Google Patents
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for gathering data for logical network
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Network control system for configuring middleboxes

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Network control apparatus and method for creating and modifying logical switching elements

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(57) ABSTRACT A network controller for managing several managed switch ing elements
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Network control apparatus and method for populating logical datapath sets

T Koponen, P Thakkar, WA Lambeth - US Patent 10,103,939, 2018 - Google Patents
For a network control system that receives, from a user, logical datapath sets that logically
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Control plane interface for logical middlebox services

A Padmanabhan, T Koponen, R Zhang… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine readable medium of a first middlebox
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