Patent ID: 8031627
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A server for association with a router, comprising: a filter to receive an Internet Protocol (IP) packet from the router and to identify the IP packet as a production IP packet or a non-production IP packet; a packet modifier to manipulate data within an experimental header of the non-production IP packet to test an experimental protocol associated with the experimental header, the packet modifier to manipulate the data by at least one of: a processor to generate a second non-production IP packet, and to determine whether to transmit the manipulated non-production IP packet and the second non-production IP packet; a route selector to determine a destination to receive the manipulated and the second non-production IP packets; and a switch transmitter communicatively coupled to the router to transmit the production IP packet back to the router and to transmit the manipulated and the second non-production IP packets back to the router.