Patent ID: 11863458
Assignee: INNOVIUM, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A networking apparatus comprising:
a plurality of communication ports configured to send and receive packets, including a source port configured to receive an original packet from a source in a network;
forwarding logic configured to:
based at least on destination address information in the packet, identify a destination for the original packet;
identify a destination port, of the communication ports, that is associated with the destination;
send the original packet out the identified destination port;

reflection logic configured to, based on determining that one or more reflection criteria have been met with respect to the original packet:
duplicate at least a portion of the original packet to generate a duplicate packet;
address the duplicate packet to indicate that the duplicate packet is destined for the source of the original packet, the duplicate packet traverses along a reverse path of a path in the network that the original packet traversed from the source to the networking apparatus;
send the duplicate packet to a preceding hop using the reverse path.