Active monitoring of border network fabrics

    公开(公告)号:US10243785B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-26

    申请号:US15182133

    申请日:2016-06-14

    Abstract: Technologies are provided for active monitoring of network fabrics, such as border network fabrics. For example, test packets can be generated and sent to destination devices within the network fabrics. The test packets can have destination ports that have been identified as closed destination ports. The success of the test packets can be determined based on whether ICMP error packet responses are received. If a network problem is detected based on results of the test packets, then traceroute packets can be used to identify the location of the network problem.

    Monitoring a multi-tier network fabric

    公开(公告)号:US10038601B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-31

    申请号:US14498028

    申请日:2014-09-26

    Abstract: The following description is directed to monitoring a multi-tier network including a first tier of routers and a second tier of routers. In one embodiment, a method of monitoring the network comprises creating a probe packet. The probe packet can include a source address corresponding to a monitoring function, and a destination address served by a path from the first tier to the second tier of routers. The probe packet can be transmitted into the multi-tier network. A number of probe packets counted by each router of the first and second tiers of routers can be received. One or more performance metrics of the multi-tier network can be determined based, at least in part, on a sum of the number of probe packets counted by the first tier of routers and a sum of the number of probe packets counted by the second tier of routers.

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