Patent ID: 11863454
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of validating packet forwarding in a multi-cloud environment, the method comprising:
identifying, by a first network hop, one or more network hops across a multi-cloud environment, wherein the one or more network hops are adjacent or connected to the first network hop;
determining a corresponding flow label for each of the respective one or more network hops, the corresponding flow label at least identifying data being transmitted from the first network hop to a corresponding hop of the one or more network hops and being separate from a segment identifier;
validating packet forwarding of the one or more network hops using at least the corresponding flow label;
determining one or more additional network hops across the multi-cloud environment to be validated based on the validation of the one or more network hops; and
validating packet forwarding for the one or more additional network hops in the queue.