Cisco Technology, Inc.

Frederic Mathieu

Rohit Sharma

Jayakumar Jayakumar

Ashish Gupta

John Sandoval

Naresh Sharma

Raja Rangarjan

Virendra Patel

A method is described that resets a first count and resets a second count if a first transmission unit is recognized as being within a new measurement time window. The first transmission unit has a size. The method also increments the first count by the first transmission unit size and by the size of each subsequent transmission unit that is received within the new measurement time window after the first transmission unit&#x2014;so long as the first count does not exceed a maximum allowable value for the first count. The method also checks if a maximum value for the second count is exceeded if it is incremented by a second transmission unit size. The second transmission unit is received within the measurement time window. The check is in response to a determination that the first count would have exceeded the first count maximum allowable valuable if the first count were incremented by the second transmission unit size.

Method and apparatus for input policing a network connection

A statistics data collection mechanism for distributed, high-speed data processing environments is described. According to one embodiment, an update message containing statistics data related to a data packet carried along a virtual connection is assembled and the update message is then transmitted to a statistics collection engine for further processing. According to another embodiment, the update message is received from one or more processing devices, and multiple counters are then updated to store the statistics data.

Statistics data collection mechanism for distributed, high-speed data processing environments

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Frederic Mathieu