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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Robert Seger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 41/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Discovering nodes of a network is disclosed. A multicast group of the network is sent an Internet Protocol multicast packet that requires a receiver of the packet to provide a response packet. One or more Internet Control Message Protocol replies from one or more nodes that belong to the multicast group are received. A listing of nodes of the network is determined using the one or more received replies.