US Patent 10038741 Selective enabling of sequencing for encapsulated network traffic

Encapsulated packets including sequencing information may be generated for packets to be transmitted between a source instance and destination instance. The source instance and destination instance may be implemented by different physical hosts linked by multiple network paths. Each encapsulated packet comprises contents of a corresponding packet, and one or more data values selected in accordance with whether sequencing is enable. Sequencing for network transmissions may be selective based at least in part one or more attributes of the source instance or destination instance.