Patent attributes
Techniques are described for capturing dropped packets and creating modified dropped packets with drop information associated with the dropped packets to provide greater details of the dropped packets for further analysis and/or serviceability. For example, a computing device comprises an internal communication channel, a process executing in user space, and a virtual router. The virtual router comprises, for example, processing circuitry and a drop interface to the internal communication channel, wherein the virtual router is configured to: receive a packet; in response to determining the packet is to be dropped, creating a modified dropped packet to include drop information associated with the packet; and provide the modified dropped packet to the drop interface to communicate the modified dropped packet via the internal communication channel to the process.
