US Patent 11140200 Distributing a network policy using connectivity fault management

A device may receive a network policy, the network policy specifying: a matching criteria and an action to be performed on network traffic that matches the matching criteria. The device may generate type-length-value (TLV) data based on the network policy, a value portion of the TLV data including data specifying the network policy. In addition, the device may add the TLV data to a Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) packet and transmit the CFM packet to a separate device to cause the network policy to be implemented on the separate device.