公开(公告)号：US11388141B1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US15938857

申请日：2018-03-28

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Sreekanth Rupavatharam ,  Karen Zhang ,  Prashant Singh

IPC: H04L9/40

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus may include (1) flagging, at a packet filter within a network device, a packet to be discarded instead of passed to a processing unit within the network device, (2) determining that the packet is part of a set of related packets that includes at least one additional packet destined at least intermediately for the network device, (3) identifying, by monitoring incoming packets received at the packet filter, the additional packet within the set of related packets, and then (4) discarding, due to the additional packet being included within the set of related packets, the additional packet instead of passing the additional packet to the processing unit. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.