US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Oct. 27 for "Packet size parameter rewrite based on network dynamics" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,996, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Packet size parameter rewrite based on network dynamics" was invented by Anand Narayanan Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a packet from a virtual tunnel end point. The packet may be configured to have a transmission control protocol (TCP) maximum segment size (MSS) data field containing a value. The network device may be configured to determine a minimum Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) value to the virtual tunnel end point. The network device may be configured to replace the value with a replacement va...