Header Modification

You can configure settings to prepare and optimize packet headers for forwarding and processing by analysis tools.

Tagging and encapsulation techniques are an established part of networking, but some tagging protocols can create blind spots or unintended packet loss when third-party applications are not designed to interpret some or all of them. Stripping encapsulation header tags removes the interpreting burden and prepares them for downstream tools.

The NPB application provides the following header-modification functionality:

For more information about decapsulation, see Tunnel Termination.

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Header-modification and other packet actions
Header-modification and other packet actions available between packet ingress and egress