Patent ID: 11876696
Assignee: PENSANDO SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A network appliance comprising:
a packet processing pipeline circuit that includes a plurality of processing stages;
a storage means for storing a plurality of network rules for processing a network packet in a network flow;
a compilation means for producing a configuration means for configuring the processing stages to implement a plurality of polices and a mapping means for using a hardware identifier and a policy identifier to identify one of the network rules and one of the processing stages;
a control plane means for using the configuration means to configure the processing stages to process the network packet and to produce a metadata that includes the hardware identifier and the policy identifier; and
a reporting means for using the metadata and the mapping means to produce a trace report,
wherein:
the trace report indicates the one of the network rules in association with the one of the processing stages and the network flow.