Patent ID: 11936726
Assignee: PENSANDO SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A network appliance comprising:
a network interface;
a PCIe interface;
memory; and
a processor configured to: identify network traffic at a network appliance that is to be subjected to traffic mirroring for network telemetry; and
select from available options of:
generating enhanced mirrored network traffic by at least one of compressing and encrypting the network traffic at the network appliance, and transmitting the enhanced mirrored network traffic from the network appliance to a collector; and
transmitting mirrored network traffic from the network appliance to the collector without compressing or encrypting the network traffic;
wherein the enhanced mirrored network traffic is generated to include a header field that indicates whether mirrored network traffic is compressed;
wherein the header field is in a reserved field of an Encapsulated Remote Switch Port Analyzer (ERSPAN) header.