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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2020
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Binder, Seattle, WA (US);
Vutrala Narayana, Seattle, WA (US);
Saxon Amdahl, San Jose, CA (US);
Pete Thornewell, Seattle, WA (US);
F5, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic manager apparatuses, and systems includes receiving a plurality of network packets. Metadata comprising state information for the received plurality of network packets is generated. The generated metadata is inserted into the received plurality of network packets or a cloned version of the plurality of network packets. A network diagnostic operation is performed on the received plurality of network packets based on the inserted metadata into the received plurality of network packets or the cloned version of the plurality of network packets.