Patent ID: 11902139
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
generating a probe packet addressed to a destination node of an expired data packet;
sending the probe packet in a network towards the destination node;
receiving the probe packet; and
based on receiving the probe packet;
identifying In-situ Operations, Administration, and Management (IOAM) information in the probe packet;
identifying one or more intermediary nodes in a routing loop based, at least in part, on the IOAM information;
generating a report indicating a presence of the routing loop and identifying the one or more intermediary nodes in the routing loop; and
sending, to an administrator, the report.