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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2014
Gigamon Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Shehzad Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Qi Ming Ng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ning Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Gigamon Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A network switch apparatus, includes: a network port configured to receive a packet; instrument ports configured to communicate with respective network monitoring instruments; a packet duplication module configured to copy the packet to provide multiple packets that are identical to each other; a tagging module configured to tag the multiple packets with different respective identifiers to obtain tagged packets; and a processing unit coupled to the instrument ports; wherein the processing unit is configured to determine whether a first one of the tagged packets satisfies a first criterion, whether a second one of the tagged packets satisfies a second criterion, process the first one of the tagged packets in a first manner if the first one of the tagged packets satisfies the first criterion, and process the second one of the tagged packets in a second manner if the second one of the tagged packets satisfies the second criterion.