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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Lihua Yuan, Redmond, WA (US);
Xinyan Zan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Deepak Bansal, Yarrow Point, WA (US);
David A. Maltz, Redmond, WA (US);
Leiwen Deng, Redmond, WA (US);
Sheng Lu, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for capturing network traffic in a virtualized computing environment. A packet to be captured in the virtualized environment is identified. The packet is tagged using a pattern of one or more bits in a header of the packet. The pattern indicates that the packet is to be traced. The pattern is propagated to an outer layer during encapsulation of the packet. A header of the encapsulated packet includes the pattern of one or more bits. At least one network device is caused to mirror identified packets based on the reserved bit.