Patent ID: 8510436

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that configure a processing device for: injecting one or more captured IP packets through an ingress point of network device in communication with the processing device, wherein the one or more captured IP packets include transport layer data, application layer data or session layer data, or combinations thereof in header information; logging operations performed on the one or more captured IP packets wherein the logging comprises adding one or more tags to the one or more captured IP packets, wherein each tag of the one or more tags indicates at least one operation performed on the one or more captured IP packets by the network device; determining the at least one operation performed on the one or more captured IP packets by inspecting corresponding tags; correlating network device configuration information corresponding to a network device configuration for the network device with the at least one operation performed on the one or more captured IP packets, wherein the at least one operation performed each map to one or more corresponding lines in a configuration file.