公开(公告)号：US20200220664A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-09

申请号：US16817594

申请日：2020-03-12

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Michael A. RAMALHO ,  Jon M. SNYDER ,  Kashyap Kodanda Ram KAMBHATLA ,  Pal-Erik MARTINSEN ,  Wai-Tian TAN ,  Paul Edwin JONES

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04L29/12

Abstract: A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a first node in a communications network a Session Traversal Utilities for Network Address Translation (“STUN”) message associated with a first flow, wherein the STUN message comprises a flow attribute including corresponding to the first flow; analyzing the flow attribute at the first node; setting policy corresponding to the first flow in the network based on the analyzing, wherein setting the policy includes using the flow attribute of the STUN message to configure a network path for the first flow in the communications network; and forwarding the STUN message to a next network node.