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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
May. 12, 2009
Gunes Aybay, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cliff Deguzman, Dublin, CA (US);
Srinivas Gadgil, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paras Trivedi, San Jose, CA (US);
Gunes Aybay, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cliff Deguzman, Dublin, CA (US);
Srinivas Gadgil, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paras Trivedi, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a packet generation module that has a set of general purpose processing modules and is configured to define a test packet configured to emulate at least a portion of network traffic. The apparatus also includes a switch device configured to receive the test packet from the packet generation module. The switch device is configured to multi-cast the test packet via a set of ports of the switch device to a target entity based on a routing policy.