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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1999
Mark Albert, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Ravishankar Chandrasekaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Louis F. Menditto, Raleigh, NC (US);
Chris O'Rourke, Morrisville, NC (US);
Pranav Kumar Tiwari, Raleigh, NC (US);
Tzu-Ming Tsang, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for providing a network service. The method includes storing at a forwarding agent a tag table. The tag table includes a list of tags and each tag specifies an interface and a destination. An instruction is received from a service manager specifying an overriding packet destination. The overriding packet destination is a destination that corresponds to a specific destination in a specific one of the tags. A packet is dispatched from the forwarding agent to the overriding packet destination using the specific one of the tags in response to the instruction from the service manager.