Patent ID: 8295277

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a first communications port, wherein the first communications port is coupled to a transmission control protocol (TCP); a second communications port, the second communications port is coupled to an entry of a session control transport protocol (SCTP) pipe; and router control logic coupled to the first and second communication ports and operable to route packets between the first and second communication ports; wherein the router control logic intercepts a first type of predefined packet requesting router information sent by a first endpoint to a second endpoint, the first type of predefined packet comprising a source address for responding, on the first communications port; wherein the control logic is responsive to receiving the first type of predefined packet converts the first type of predefined packet to a second type of predefined packet and send the second type of predefined packet for requesting router information on the second communications port, the requested router information comprising transmission control protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) session information; wherein the control logic receives responses to the second type of predefined packet via the second communication port, the responses including a list of TCP and UDP sessions in the SCTP pipe; wherein the control logic collates the responses to the second type of predefined packet received on the second communication port; wherein the router control logic sends a response to the first predefined packet to the first endpoint received via the first communications port, the response comprising the collated responses to the second type of predefined packet received via the second communications port; and wherein the first predefined packet type is a transmission control protocol synchronization packet (TCP SYN) and the second predefined packet type is a user datagram protocol (UDP) packet.