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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:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

James Chun Pang, Vancouver, CA;

Bidong Chen, Surrey, CA;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1095 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some embodiments, a method processes a first packet and generates a first copy of the first packet as a second packet. The method sends second copies of the first packet to a first group of multiple destinations defined by a first address. Also, the method sends the second packet to an interface with a loopback function. The interface recirculates the second packet for further processing. The second packet is processed where the second packet is assigned a destination of a second address. Then, the method sends copies of the second packet to a second group of multiple destinations defined by the second address.


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