Providing flood tree traversal utilizing a customized probe packet for a network device

A network device, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors to:
• receive parameters for a probe packet;
• generate the probe packet based on the parameters;
• provide the probe packet to multiple ingress packet forwarding components of the network device;
• generate probe packet copies at the multiple ingress packet forwarding components, wherein each of the multiple ingress packet forwarding components is programmed with a filter that causes each of the multiple ingress packet forwarding components to generate ingress route metadata for the probe packet copies;
• generate the ingress route metadata via the filters provided in the multiple ingress packet forwarding components;
• provide the probe packet copies to multiple egress packet forwarding components of the network device;
• generate egress route metadata for the probe packet copies via filters provided in the multiple egress packet forwarding components,
• wherein each of the filters provided in the multiple ingress packet forwarding components and in the multiple egress packet forwarding components is one of a firewall filter or a microcode modification;
• provide the probe packet copies, the ingress route metadata, and the egress route metadata to an application;
• utilize the application to generate a report based on the probe packet copies, the ingress route metadata, and the egress route metadata;
• and
• provide the report for analysis.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network device, cause the network device to:
• receive parameters for a probe packet;
• generate the probe packet based on the parameters;
• provide the probe packet to multiple ingress packet forwarding components of the network device;
• generate probe packet copies at the multiple ingress packet forwarding components, wherein each of the multiple ingress packet forwarding components is programmed with a filter that causes each of the multiple ingress packet forwarding components to generate ingress route metadata for the probe packet copies;
• generate the ingress route metadata via the filters provided in the multiple ingress packet forwarding components;
• provide the probe packet copies to multiple egress packet forwarding components of the network device;
• generate egress route metadata for the probe packet copies via filters provided in the multiple egress packet forwarding components;
• provide the probe packet copies, the ingress route metadata, and the egress route metadata to an application;
• utilize the application to generate a report based on the probe packet copies, the ingress route metadata, and the egress route metadata;
• and
• utilize the report to debug the network device.