Patent ID: 11929987
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. The network device of claim 11,
wherein, to receive the packet, the one or more processors are configured to receive the packet via the first VMI, wherein the packet is destined for the IP fabric, wherein, to modify the MAC address field of the L2 packet header of the packet with the flow identifier of the first one of the packet flows, the one or more processors are configured to modify the source MAC address field of the L2 packet header, wherein, to send the packet including the flow identifier to the firewall, the one or more processors are configured to send the packet including the flow identifier to a first interface of the firewall configured to receive the packet including the flow identifier as an input, wherein, to receive the packet including the flow identifier returned from the firewall, the one or more processors are configured to receive the packet including the flow identifier returned from the firewall via a second interface of the firewall configured to output the packet including the flow identifier.