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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2006
Szelap Philip Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Manoj Apte, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravanan Deenadayalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Szelap Philip Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Manoj Apte, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravanan Deenadayalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for managing timeouts of filter criteria in a packet flow capture applications. The techniques allow for handling large amounts of timeouts used when monitoring a high volume of packet flows, without placing extreme demands on the operating system for managing the timeouts. The timeout data structure may be a circular array having a plurality of elements. The timeout array represents a span of time and the elements represent sequential units of time. Each element contains one or more pointers. The pointer may point to an entry in the filter table, or may be a null pointer. A timer thread periodically checks the timeout array to determine whether any timeouts occur at the current time. The timer thread checks the element of the array corresponding to the current time by computing an index into the array based on the current time.