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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Harish Nataraj, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ajay Chandel, Fremont, CA (US);
Naveen Kondapalli, San Ramon, CA (US);
Prakash Kaligotla, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an agent process produces synthetic packet traffic and iteratively performs a sub-process that determines isolated network segments of the communication channel between intermediate nodes and computes a set of network metrics for the isolated network segments based at least in part on incrementing TTL expiry error data points. The sub-process also encapsulates, for inclusion within the next packet to be sent, a list of intermediate node IDs along the communication channel up to a latest received node ID and computed sets of network metrics for respective network segments. The agent process may then generate, upon termination of the sub-process, a report, the report including the list of intermediate node IDs along the communication channel up to a latest received node ID and computed sets of network metrics for respective network segments.