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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, Bangalore, IN;
Carlos M. Pignataro, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Guichard, New Boston, NH (US);
Daniel G. Wing, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael D. Geller, Weston, FL (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a service classifier configured for steering cloned traffic through a service function chain. The service classifier is configured to create a cloned data packet by creating a copy of a data packet; activate a mirror bit in a network service header (NSH) of the cloned data packet, the mirror bit identifying the cloned packet to a service function forwarder network element as a cloned packet; and transmit the cloned packet to the service function forwarder network element.