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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2019
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Moni Levy, Petach Tikva, IL;
Sagi Rotem, Adi, IL;
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A method including providing a network switch, including switching circuitry, packet drop decision circuitry, packet duplication circuitry, and packet exporting circuitry, and performing the following in the network switch: switching packets in the switching circuitry, identifying a packet that is to be dropped in the packet drop decision circuitry, duplicating the packet that is to be dropped in the packet duplication circuitry, producing a first packet and a second packet, exporting the first packet to a tail-drop packet buffer in the packet exporting circuitry, and exporting the second packet to a cyclic packet buffer in the packet exporting circuitry. Related apparatus and methods are also provided. The abstract is not intended to be limiting.