Patent ID: 9294367
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining, based on contents of a packet received at a network device, that the received packet is to be sent to one or more monitoring devices, wherein the network device includes a virtual local area network (VLAN), the VLAN including a receiving port and a plurality of I/O ports, the receiving port and the plurality of I/O ports of the VLAN corresponding to ports of the network device, wherein Media Access Control (MAC) learning has been disabled for the receiving port; generating a duplicate packet from the received packet; causing the duplicate packet to be sent to the receiving port of the VLAN; and upon receiving the duplicate packet at the receiving port of the VLAN, causing a copy of the duplicate packet to be sent to each of one or more of the plurality of I/O ports of the VLAN.