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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2014
Gigamon Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Ashutosh Alawani, San Ramon, CA (US);
Sreekanth Settipalli, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tanmay Kishore, Fremont, CA (US);
Dominick Cafarelli, Ossining, NY (US);
Shehzad Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gigamon Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method performed by a network device that taps to a network having a routing device, includes: determining a first information regarding an input interface of the routing device for a packet; determining a second information regarding an output interface of the routing device for the packet; determining whether the packet belongs to a user-defined category based on one or more mapping formation defined at the network device; and storing the packet, the first information regarding the input interface of the routing device, the second information regarding the output interface of the routing device, and information regarding the user-defined category in a non-transitory medium in association with each other.