Juniper Networks, Inc.

Shivam Vaid

Raveendra Torvi

Dmitry A Shokarev

Manikandan Musuvathi Poornachary

Venkata Naga Chaitanya Munukutla

Vishnu Pavan Beeram

Vishnu Pavan Kumar Beeram

In general, this disclosure describes a network device to determine a cause of packets being dropped within a network. An example method includes generating, by a traffic monitor operating on a network device, an exception packet that includes a unique exception code that identifies a cause for a component in the network device to discard a transit packet, and a nexthop index identifying a forwarding path being taken by the transit packet experiencing the exception. The method also includes forwarding the exception packet to a collector to be processed.

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Bengaluru, India

Shivam Vaid