Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, system, and method for fragmenting packets into segments that comply with the maximum transmission unit of egress interfaces
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Application No.: US15615016Application Date: 2017-06-06
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Publication No.: US10594618B1Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Prashant Singh , Sreekanth Rupavatharam , Hariprasad Shanmugam , Erin C. MacNeil
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/805
- IPC: H04L12/805 ; H04L12/861 ; H04L12/935 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/879 ; H04L12/841

Abstract:
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a physical routing engine that comprises (A) a socket-intercept layer, stored in kernel space, that (I) intercepts a packet that is destined for a remote device and (II) queries, in response to intercepting the packet in kernel space, a routing daemon in user space for an MTU value of an egress interface that is to forward the packet from the network device to the remote device and (B) a tunnel driver, stored in kernel space, that fragments the packet into segments whose respective sizes each comply with the MTU value of the egress interface and (2) a physical packet forwarding engine that forwards the segments of the packet to the remote device by way of the egress interface. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
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