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Method for network traffic mirroring with data privacy

  • US 8,239,960 B2
  • Filed: 03/26/2010
  • Issued: 08/07/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing data privacy of mirrored network traffic during mirroring between a mirror source point and a mirror destination point, the method comprising:

  • receiving a plurality of units of network traffic representing one or more streams of network traffic at a mirror source point of a first network device on a network;

    altering, by the mirror source point, one or more of the plurality of units received from a first data source point remotely located from the mirror source point for transmission toward a first data destination point, the altering of the one or more units providing privacy for at least a portion of selected data of the one or more units during at least a portion of mirroring communications from the mirror source point toward a mirror destination point; and

    communicating, by the mirror source point, the one or more altered units of network traffic from the mirror source point toward the mirror destination point.

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