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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2022
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkata Naga Chaitanya Munukutla, Nashua, NH (US);
Raveendra Torvi, Nashua, NH (US);
Dmitry A. Shokarev, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vishnu Pavan Kumar Beeram, Ashburn, VA (US);
Manikandan Musuvathi Poornachary, Bangalore, IN (US);
Shivam Vaid, Bangalore, IN (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, this disclosure describes a network device to determine a cause of packets being dropped within a network. An example method includes generating, by a traffic monitor operating on a network device, an exception packet that includes a unique exception code that identifies a cause for a component in the network device to discard a transit packet, and a nexthop index identifying a forwarding path being taken by the transit packet experiencing the exception. The method also includes forwarding the exception packet to a collector to be processed.