Method for time aware inline remote mirroring

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9106520-B2
Application number	US-201414194177-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2014
Priority date	Jun 15, 2010
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

A method of monitoring packet traffic is provided. The method includes: at a first access point, capturing portions of traffic packets passing therethrough separated by time intervals; encapsulating the portions of traffic packets thereby forming encapsulated packets and adding timestamps to the encapsulated packets so as to preserve the portions of traffic packets and information related to the time intervals; transmitting the encapsulated packets over a network; decapsulating the encapsulated packets so as to obtain replay packets and the capture timestamps, wherein the replay packets include the portions of the traffic packets; and, transmitting the replay packets separated by the time intervals, wherein the timestamps are used to reproduce the time intervals so as to imitate the traffic packets passing through the first access point.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method of monitoring traffic packets passing through a first access point, comprising:
at a mediator, receiving a request for providing to a remote device portions of the traffic packets passing through the first access point captured at the first access point;
registering the mediator so as to receive the portions of the traffic packets captured at the first access point;
at the mediator,
receive a request for providing to a remote device the portions of the…

Assignees

• Jds Uniphase Corp

Inventors

• Scott Alistair
• Bauer Samuel M
• Stevens Michael

Classifications

• H04L43/50

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L43/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L43/106 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/2697

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L43/062 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic