Patent ID: 11882041
Assignee: MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A network device comprising:
a first processor of the network device configured to detect congestion in a packet flow, the packet flow being i) one packet flow among a plurality of packet flows and ii) being formed of a plurality of packets of a same type received from a first device in a network via a first network connection, the packets in the packet flow being destined for a second device in the network;
a second processor of the network device configured to, when congestion notification packet generation is enabled for the packet flow, generate a congestion notification packet by replicating a packet from the packet flow; and
send the congestion notification packet to the first device via the first network connection, the congestion notification packet identifying the packet flow for which congestion is detected; and
a third processor of the network device configured to forward the plurality of packets in the packet flow to the second device via a second network connection.