- Patent Title: Segment routing network processing of packets including operations signaling and processing of packets in manners providing processing and/or memory efficiencies
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Application No.: US15841276Application Date: 2017-12-13
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Publication No.: US10469367B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Zafar Ali , Syed Kamran Raza , Ahmed Refaat Bashandy , Nagendra Kumar Nainar , Carlos M. Pignataro , Jaganbabu Rajamanickam , Rakesh Gandhi , Bhupendra Yadav , Faisal Iqbal
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: The Law Office of Kirk D. Williams
- Main IPC: H04L12/721
- IPC: H04L12/721 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L12/751 ; H04L12/733 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L12/725 ; H04L12/749

Abstract:
In one embodiment, segment routing (SR) network processing of packets is performed which includes operations signaling and processing of packets in manners providing processing and/or memory efficiencies. One embodiment includes acquiring a segment routing particular packet by a particular router in a network. Responsive to the particular router data plane ascertained during fast path processing by a fast path processing unit that the segment routing particular packet is to be Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) processed by a different processing unit in the particular router, communicating a time stamp of a current time and the segment routing particular packet including a segment routing header that includes OAM signaling from said fast path processing to the different processing unit, with fast path processing being hardware-based packet processing by the fast path processing unit. The segment routing particular packet is OAM processing by the different processing unit.
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