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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2007
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Bruce E. Lavigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Alan R. Albrecht, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Steven G. Jorgensen, Newcastle, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Bruce E. LaVigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Alan R. Albrecht, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Steven G. Jorgensen, Newcastle, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A network, network devices, and methods are described for marked packet forwarding. A network device includes a network chip having a number of network ports for receiving and transmitting packets. The network chip includes logic to decapsulate a packet received from a tunnel, mark the packet with a handle associated with an originating network device of the packet using information from an encapsulation header, and forward the marked packet to a checking functionality having a destination address different from an original destination address of the packet.