Global Patent Index - EP 4078935 A1

EP 4078935 A1 20221026 - FACILITATING DISTRIBUTED SNAT SERVICE

Title (en)

FACILITATING DISTRIBUTED SNAT SERVICE

Title (de)

ERMÖGLICHUNG EINES VERTEILTEN SNAT-DIENSTES

Title (fr)

FACILITATION DE SERVICE DE SNAT DISTRIBUÉE

Publication

EP 4078935 A1 20221026 (EN)

Application

EP 21727683 A 20210501

Priority

  • US 202016931207 A 20200716
  • US 202016931196 A 20200716
  • US 2021030371 W 20210501

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2022015394A1] Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for facilitating a distributed SNAT (dSNAT) middled ox service operation for a first network at a host computer in the first network on which the dSNAT middled ox service operation is performed and a gateway device between the first network and a second network. The novel methods enable dSNAT that provides stateful SNAT at multiple host computers, thus avoiding the bottleneck problem associated with providing stateful SNAT at gateways and also significantly reduces the need to redirect packets received at the wrong host by using a capacity of off-the-shelf gateway devices to perform IPv6 encapsulation for IPv4 packets and assigning locally unique IPv6 addresses to each host executing a dSNAT middlebox service instance that are used by the gateway device.

IPC 8 full level

H04L 61/25 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H04L 61/2532 (2013.01); H04L 67/1023 (2013.01); H04L 61/2517 (2013.01); H04L 61/2592 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 2022015394A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

Designated extension state (EPC)

BA ME

Designated validation state (EPC)

KH MA MD TN

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2022015394 A1 20220120; CN 116158064 A 20230523; EP 4078935 A1 20221026

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 2021030371 W 20210501; CN 202180061371 A 20210501; EP 21727683 A 20210501