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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2018
Applicant:

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventor:

François Labonté, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/805 (2013.01); H04L 12/855 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/022 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01); H04L 47/2466 (2013.01); H04L 47/36 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for accelerating monitoring of network traffic. The method may include receiving, at a network chip of a network device, a network traffic data unit; selecting, by the network chip, the network traffic data unit based on a traffic sampling rate; processing, by the network chip, the network traffic data unit to obtain sample information; truncating the network traffic data unit to obtain a network traffic data unit portion; generating a flow sample header comprising the sample information; storing, in storage of the network chip, a flow sample comprising the flow sample header and the network traffic data unit portion; constructing a flow datagram comprising the flow sample and a plurality of other flow samples; sending the flow datagram to a collector; and clearing the flow sample and the plurality of other flow samples from the storage of the network chip.


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