Patent ID: 9722925
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to implement a method to export Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) data in sFlow samples, the method comprising: generating separate tables for BGP attribute information, community list information, and autonomous systems path (AS_PATH) attribute information, each entry in the BGP attribute information table associated with an entry in the community list information table and an entry in the AS_PATH attribute information table; populating a BGP route information table that defines a mapping from a network address prefix to an entry in the BGP attribute information table; and generating a sFlow sample related to the network address prefix using the BGP attribute information table, the community list information table, the AS_PATH attribute information table, and the BGP route information table.