公开(公告)号：US20130133074A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-23

申请号：US13741135

申请日：2013-01-14

Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., via transfer from AT&T Corp.

Inventor： Edward Amoroso ,  Albert Greenberg ,  Balachander Krishnamurthy

IPC: H04L29/06

CPC classification number: H04L63/1433 ,  H04L29/12009 ,  H04L29/12783 ,  H04L43/00 ,  H04L61/35 ,  H04L63/0272 ,  H04L63/1408 ,  H04L63/1491

Abstract: Described is a method of assigning a network address to a trap, the network address being a dark address of a virtual private network. The network traffic destined for the network address is monitored and a classification of the network traffic is determined. After the classification, a predetermined response is executed based on the classification of the traffic.