Patent ID: 11882016
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A system for validating packet forwarding on multiple paths in a network, the system comprising:
one or more computer-readable media comprising computer-readable instructions; and
one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to:
generate, at the first network node, a test data packet with a label to be sent to along each of multiple paths in the network between the first network node and a last network node;
forward the test data packet from the first network node, along each of the one or more intermediate nodes along each of the multiple paths, to the last network node;
determine a number of packets received at the last network node;
determine whether a number of the multiple paths equals the number of packets received at the last network node; and
perform a data plane validation process to validate the packet forwarding from the first network node to the last network node upon determining that the number of the multiple paths equals to the number of packets received at the last network node.