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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2007
Bruce E. Lavigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Alan R. Albrecht, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Mauricio Sanchez, Roseville, CA (US);
Steven G. Jorgensen, Newcastle, CA (US);
Bruce E. LaVigne, Roseville, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Alan R. Albrecht, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Mauricio Sanchez, Roseville, CA (US);
Steven G. Jorgensen, Newcastle, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Network devices, systems, and methods are provided for packet processing. One network device includes a network chip having a number of network ports for the device. The network chip includes logic to select original data packets, based on a set of criteria, received from or destined to a particular port on the device and to tunnel the selected data packets to a second network device having a different destination address to that of the selected data packets.