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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Gigamon Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yingchun Ma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yan Xiu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ramakrishna Manchiraju-Venkata, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zbigniew Sufleta, Cobb, CA (US);
Gigamon Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A packet broker deployed in a visibility fabric may intelligently assign identifiers to data packets that are routed through sequences of one or more network tools for monitoring and/or security purposes. However, in some instances, it may be desirable for data packets the one or more network tools in a load-balanced manner rather than a cascaded manner. Accordingly, the packet broker may initially form a trunk group (i.e., a predefined group of ports that are treated as one port) based on input provided by an administrator. A group of network tools that share a load (i.e., a traffic flow) through trunking facilitated by the packet broker are referred to as a 'trunk group' of network tools.