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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2017
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pranavadatta Devaki Narasimha Bhatta, Mysore, IN;
Vivek Ramesh, Kottayam, IN;
Reji Thomas, Bangalore, IN;
Juniper Networks, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A disclosed method may include (1) providing a network stack that includes both a native stack and a proprietary stack, (2) implementing at least one socket that represents an endpoint of a communication channel between a network device and a computing device, (3) identifying at least one packet to be forwarded from the network device to the computing device via the socket, (4) configuring the network stack such that (A) the native stack discovers a maximum transmission unit of a network path between the network device and the computing device in connection with the socket and (B) the proprietary stack fragments the packet into a plurality of segments that each comply with the maximum transmission unit of the network path, and then (5) forwarding, along the network path, the segments to the computing device. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.