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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2009
Noah Gintis, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Alok K. Srivastava, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Victor Alston, Oak Park, CA (US);
Noah Gintis, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Alok K. Srivastava, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Victor Alston, Oak Park, CA (US);
Ixia, Calabasas, CA (US);
Abstract
There are disclosed methods and a packet receiver for testing a network. A packet may be received from the network at a port unit. The port unit may ignore the received packet if the received packet does not contain a valid test signature. When the received packet contains a valid test signature, the port unit may determine if the port unit is an expected destination for the received packet. When the port unit is not an expected destination for the received packet, a misdirected packet counter may be incremented. When the port unit is an expected destination for the received packet, test data may be extracted from the received packet.