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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Aamer Saeed Akhter, Cary, NC (US);
Plamen Nedeltchev Nedeltchev, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes generating at a first network device Virtual Private Network ('VPN') encapsulated packets with anonymized headers; maintaining a table mapping the anonymized headers to original headers of the VPN encapsulated packets; receiving a trace request from an initiator; generating from the received trace request an out-of-tunnel trace request toward a second network device via at least one intermediate network device using the anonymized headers; and forwarding the received trace request as an in-tunnel trace request through a VPN tunnel.