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

Claim 9:
10. A method comprising:
at a source port of a network device comprising a plurality of communication ports, receiving an original packet from a source in a network;
based at least on destination address information in the packet, identifying a destination for the original packet;
identifying a destination port, of the communication ports, that is associated with the destination;
sending the original packet out the identified destination port;
based on determining that one or more reflection criteria have been met with respect to the original packet:
duplicating at least a portion of the original packet to generate a duplicate packet;
addressing 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;
sending the duplicate packet to a preceding hop using the reverse path.