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Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2014
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

Roger A. Chickering, Granite Bay, CA (US);

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/0227 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method may include determining one or more rules and communicating the one or more rules to a firewall, where the firewall receives a data unit and determines, based on the one or more rules, whether to forward the data unit to a destination address; receiving a redirection of a device from the firewall when the firewall determines not to forward the data unit to the destination address; receiving an indication that the firewall did not forward the data unit to the destination address; and determining a new rule to allow the firewall to forward the data unit to the destination address and communicating the new rule to the firewall; and redirecting the device to the destination address.


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