CPC H04L 43/0894 (2013.01) [H04L 43/062 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A network device comprising:
a packet processing pipeline having:
a parser configured to parse packet information in a transit packet received at an input interface of the network device, wherein the parsed packet information is used to perform a processing operation on the transit packet;
packet sampling information storage circuitry configured to store sampled packet information obtained based on the parsed packet information from the parser; and
a processing engine configured to:
modify a payload of a sampling information accumulation packet to include the sampled packet information for the transit packet;
output the sampling information accumulation packet;
receive the output sampling information accumulation packet containing the sampled packet information for the transit packet in the payload; and
modify the payload of the received sampling information accumulation packet to include additional sampled packet information for one or more additional transit packets in addition to the sampled packet information for the transit packet.
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