Patent ID: 8284657

Claim:
A system useable in mirroring a connection in a network, comprising: a client-receiver that is determined from one of an active network device or a standby network device, and is configured to perform actions, including: receiving, from a client device, a packet over the network; employing information from the packet to maintain a state for the connection; and communicating the packet received from the client device to the non client-receiver other one of the active network device or the standby network device, to enable the non client-receiver to separately construct for the connection a substantially similar state to the state maintained by the client-receiver based at least on the communicated packet; a forwarder that is determined from one of the active network device or the standby network device, and is configured to forward the packet to a server device over the network; a server-receiver that is determined from one of the active network device or the standby network device, and is configured to perform actions, including: receiving, from the server device over the network, a response packet; and communicating the response packet to the non server-receiver other one of the active network device or the standby network device, such that the other network device receives the response packet from other than the server device; and a response-forwarder that is determined from one of the active network device or the standby network device, and is configured to forward the response packet to the client device over the network, wherein the response-forwarder and the forwarder are different ones of the active network device and standby network device and both the active network device and the standby network device are concurrently operational to perform respective actions.