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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 02, 2007
Kenneth W. Davidson, Frisco, TX (US);
Louis F. Menditto, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gopal K. Dommety, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kenneth W. Davidson, Frisco, TX (US);
Louis F. Menditto, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gopal K. Dommety, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) receiving an outbound packet in a network device, where the outbound packet includes a packet header; (ii) modifying the outbound packet by adding a service identifier to a cleartext portion of the packet header; (iii) when the outbound packet represents an event boundary, adding an event delimiter to the packet header; and (iv) passing the outbound packet to an encryption process for packaging and transmitting across a tunnel.