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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
Gigamon Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zbigniew Sufleta, Cobb, CA (US);
Hung Chuen Jason Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ramakrishna Manchiraju-Venkata, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tanmay Kishore, Fremont, CA (US);
Yan Xiu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Hung Nguyen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sitti Amarittapark, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gigamon Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Introduced herein is a technology for a network switch device to route network packets through a inline tool, without introducing additional information to the network packets. The technology records an association between an input network port and a signature (e.g., source MAC address) of the network packet, before forwarding the packet to the inline tool. When receiving the packet back from the inline tool, the network device recognizes that the packet signature is associated with the input network port, and that the input network port is paired with a particular output network port. Thus, the network device identifies the output network port for sending the packet, without modifying contents of the packet.