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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2019
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. Guiding techniques based on these identifiers offer flexible support for multiple network tool operational modes. For example, the packet broker may be able to readily address changes in the state of a network tool connected to the packet broker by modifying certain egress translation schemes and/or ingress translation schemes. The 'state' of a network tool can be 'up' (i.e., ready for service) or “down” (i.e., out of service) based on, for example, the network tool's ability to pass through health-probing data packets dispatched by the packet broker.