Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Traceroute method to identify devices in tunneled segment of routing path
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Application No.: US16024037Application Date: 2018-06-29
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Publication No.: US11206204B2Publication Date: 2021-12-21
- Inventor: Fabrice Monier , Madani Lainani
- Applicant: Itron Global SARL
- Applicant Address: US WA Liberty Lake
- Assignee: Itron Global SARL
- Current Assignee: Itron Global SARL
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Liberty Lake
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Methods and devices for providing routing path and transit delay time data to a device running traceroute on an IP network comprising routing tunnels are described herein. In examples, a tunnel entrance device may copy a hop limit value associated with a traceroute probe into a hop limit field of a tunneled IP header. In other examples, the tunnel entrance device may perform address spoofing to generate an error message with a source address corresponding to an intermediate device disposed within a routing tunnel. In this way, a device executing traceroute may be able to receive network addresses corresponding to intermediate devices in a routing tunnel in order to perform network diagnostics, construct routing tables, determine more efficient routing paths, and so on.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200007425A1 TRACEROUTE METHOD TO IDENTIFY DEVICES IN TUNNELED SEGMENT OF ROUTING PATH Public/Granted day:2020-01-02
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