Patent ID: 7461290

Claim:
A system useable in mirroring a connection in a network, comprising: a client-receiver that is determined from one of an first network device or a second network device, and is configured to perform actions, including: receiving, from a client device, a packet over the network; and if the connection is to be mirrored, communicating the packet to the other one of the first network device or the second network device that is other than the network device determined as the client-receiver network device, wherein the non client-receiver receives the packet from the client-receiver instead of from the client device; a server-receiver that is determined from one of the first network device or the second network device, and is configured to perform actions, including: receiving, from a server device over the network, a response packet; and if the connection is to be mirrored, communicating the response packet to the other one of the first network device or the second network device that is other than the network device determined as the server-receiver network device; and a forwarder that is determined from one of the first network device or the second network device, and is configured to perform actions, including: forwarding the packet to the server device; sending an acknowledgement packet to the client device; forwarding the response packet to the client device; and sending another acknowledgement packet to the server device.