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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2020
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Michael A. Ramalho, Lakewood Ranch, FL (US);
Jon M. Snyder, Portland, OR (US);
Kashyap Kodanda Ram Kambhatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Pal-Erik Martinsen, As, NO;
Wai-Tian Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul Edwin Jones, Apex, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a first node in a communications network a Session Traversal Utilities for Network Address Translation ('STUN') message associated with a first flow, wherein the STUN message comprises a flow attribute including corresponding to the first flow; analyzing the flow attribute at the first node; setting policy corresponding to the first flow in the network based on the analyzing, wherein setting the policy includes using the flow attribute of the STUN message to configure a network path for the first flow in the communications network; and forwarding the STUN message to a next network node.