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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2007
Daniel G. Wing, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert J. Biskner, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Rajesh Kumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mohamed S. Mostafa, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Daniel G. Wing, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert J. Biskner, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Rajesh Kumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mohamed S. Mostafa, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a router examines an incoming packet for a flow monitoring request. The router may examine every packet for the flow monitoring request, or preferably may only examine packets including a lifetime value indicating that the packet should be dropped and not forwarded or may only examine packets having a predetermined message format. When the flow monitoring request is included, the router performs detailed flow analysis or other monitoring according to the flow monitoring request.