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US 12,756,641 B2Granted
Networks for packet monitoring and replay
AssigneeBGC Partners, Inc.
InventorsBijoy Paul, Ian Davies
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for monitoring and replaying packets. A network tap forwards packets from a first network to a second network. At least one node in the first network has the same IP address as a node in the second network. The packets are replayed in the second network.
Claims20
A network tap apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of network interfaces;
- at least one processor to:
- receive, via a network interface, at least one packet from a source device, the at least one packet being bound for a destination device, the source device and the destination device being nodes of a first network, the source device and the destination device each being associated with a respective internet protocol (IP) address;
- send, via the network interface, the at least one packet to the destination device in the first network along a particular path in the first network;
- generate a duplicate packet that is a copy of the at least one packet;
- forward, using another network interface, the duplicate packet to another destination device in a second network, the another destination device in the second network having an IP address that is identical to that of the destination device in the first network, along a path in the second network that mirrors the particular path in the first network;
- and
- store a first packet and a second packet in a database, wherein the second packet is associated with the first packet via an identifier that is identical to the first packet,
- wherein the at least one packet represents an order for financial instrument or execution of trade for financial instrument.
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A network tap apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- receive, via a first network interface, at least one packet from a source device, the at least one packet being bound for a destination device, the source device and the destination device being nodes of a first network, the source device and the destination device each being associated with a respective internet protocol (IP) address;
- send, via the first network interface, the at least one packet to the destination device in the first network;
- generate a duplicate packet that is a copy of the at least one packet;
- and
- forward, using a second network interface, the duplicate packet to another destination device in a second network,
- wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive the at least one packet and forward the duplicated packet, when the network tap apparatus is directly connected to a first node of the first network having a first IP address and a second node in the first network having a second IP address by the first network interface, and directly connected to a first node of the second network having an identical address to the first IP address, and a second node of the second network having an identical address to the second IP address by the second network interface, and
- wherein the at least one packet represents an order for financial instrument or execution of trade for financial instrument.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.