Abstract: A technique for handling messages generated in an industrial control procedure by a first device for being transmitted via a communication network towards a second device is presented, wherein the first device is one of a field device and a field device controller and the second device is the other one of the field device and the field device controller. A method implementation of the technique comprises intercepting a first message generated by the first device, wherein the first message is intercepted before the communication network towards the second device, and wherein the first message has a first message content. The method also comprises storing the first message content and forwarding the first message content on the communication network towards the second device.

Abstract: A packet forwarding circuit (18), such as a programmable switch or router, for example, is disposed between a control server (14) and one or more actuators (17) associated with a robotic arm (16), for example. The packet forwarding circuit is configured to perform real-time velocity control of the one or more actuators in addition to other functionalities that it normally performs, such as routing, packet forwarding, and firewall protection.

Abstract: A method is implemented by a programmable network device, where the method is to enable debugging of a parser in a packet processing pipeline of the programmable network device. The method includes receiving a packet for processing in the packet processing pipeline, initializing a tracing structure to record debugging information for the parser, adding a current state of the parser to the tracing structure, and determining a next state of the parser.