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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2018
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Quevedo, Seattle, WA (US);
Saxon Amdahl, Portola Valley, CA (US);
F5 NETWORKS, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic management apparatuses, and network traffic management systems that identify a first service based on inspection of a message received from a server. The message is associated with a flow between a client and the server. The first service is incorporated in, or removed from a service chain associated with the flow. The message, or other received network traffic associated with the flow, is then steered according to the service chain. With this technology, network traffic can advantageously be processed and steered according to services within a service chain that more accurately reflect the communications occurring within particular flows with this technology. In particular, service chains for flows can advantageously be established or modified to account for server-speaks-first protocols, as well as protocols that may be used inside secure or encrypted connections.