Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

Moni Levy

Sagi Rotem

Apparatus including a network switch which includes switching circuitry to switch packets, packet drop decision circuitry to identify a packet that is to be dropped, packet duplication circuitry to duplicate the packet that is to be dropped, producing a first packet and a second packet, and packet exporting circuitry to export the first packet to a memory external to the switch via direct memory access (DMA). Related apparatus and methods are also provided.

Network traffic disruptions

A method including providing a network switch, including switching circuitry, packet drop decision circuitry, packet duplication circuitry, and packet exporting circuitry, and performing the following in the network switch: switching packets in the switching circuitry, identifying a packet that is to be dropped in the packet drop decision circuitry, duplicating the packet that is to be dropped in the packet duplication circuitry, producing a first packet and a second packet, exporting the first packet to a tail-drop packet buffer in the packet exporting circuitry, and exporting the second packet to a cyclic packet buffer in the packet exporting circuitry. Related apparatus and methods are also provided. The abstract is not intended to be limiting.

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Petach Tikva, Israel

Moni Levy