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Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010

Filed:

May. 08, 2006
Applicants:

Thomas D. Nadeau, Hampton, NH (US);

Sumit Mukhopadhyay, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Stephen Paul Elias, Amherst, NH (US);

Adrien Michael Grise, Dracut, MA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas D. Nadeau, Hampton, NH (US);

Sumit Mukhopadhyay, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Stephen Paul Elias, Amherst, NH (US);

Adrien Michael Grise, Dracut, MA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system receives a packet at a router, and pushes a label onto a label stack. The label stack is associated with the packet. The system provides a forwarding record containing label bindings for the router, and transmits the forwarding record to a collector. A system receives a forwarding record from a router. The system compares a first record entry type of the forwarding record with a second record entry type of the forwarding record to determine the traffic flow in the network. The system then maps the traffic flow in the network, based on a result of the comparing.

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