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Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2017
Applicant:

New H3c Technologies Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, CN;

Inventor:

Xiaoheng Song, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/02 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01);
Abstract

VTEP receives a packet, VXLAN-encapsulates and sends a mirror packet of the packet to a remote VTEP accessed by a monitoring server, or ends the mirror packet to a local monitoring server according to the execution action of a matching first forwarding entry if the packet is a user packet from a local monitored host; VXLAN-encapsulates and sends the mirror packet to a remote VTEP accessed by the monitoring server, or sends the mirror packet to the local monitoring server according to the execution action of a matching second forwarding entry if the packet is a user packet sent from a local host to the monitored host. If the packet is a VXLAN packet with the identifier of the monitoring server from the remote VTEP, the VXLAN packet is de-encapsulated to be sent to the local monitoring server according to the execution action of a matching third forwarding entry.


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