Viavi Solutions Inc.

Kratos Integral Holdings, LLC

Gabriel Black

Lai-chong May Chan

Systems, media, and methods are capable of determining a layer 2 destination address that can then be used by a network acceleration application to populate data packets to be transmitted using accelerated networking techniques. The systems and methods provide for a software application executed on a computing device that controls a NIC interface to provide for an accelerated network. The software application resides in the application layer of a networking stack and is interfaced via a virtual NIC or TUN/TAP device with the kernel and the networking stack and operating system (OS) facilities to determine a layer 2 destination address for use in accelerated network applications. Embodiments herein, through the combination above, are able to account for firewall rules, static ARP entries, or any other system-administrator rules put in place for network operations.

Programmatically determining next-hop mac address

In a method of measuring packet loss, a flow of packets is identified at first and second locations in a network. The packets in the flow are counted at each of the first and second locations to provide first and second packet counts, respectively. When a trigger packet in the flow is identified at each of the first and second locations, the first and second packet counts are latched to provide latched first and second packet counts corresponding to same packets in the flow. The latched first and second packet counts are compared to measure packet loss between the first and second locations.

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Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America

Gabriel Black