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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Michael P. Lyle, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Michael P. Lyle, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for routing data packets for network flow analysis by a multi-processor system. A data packet comprising data sufficient to identify a network connection with which the data packet is associated is received. A hash value is calculated based on the data sufficient to identify the network connection with which the data packet is associated. The data packet is assigned, based on the hash value, to one of the plurality of processors for analysis.