Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Chenggang Li

Yong Luo

Hongyu Li

A message forwarding method and system, and a relay agent device, where the forwarding method includes receiving a first dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) for Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 (DHCPv6) message from a DHCPv6 client through a layer-3 interface, generating a relay-forward message, where the first DHCPv6 message is encapsulated into the relay-forward message and an identifier (ID) of the layer-3 interface is added therein, and sending the relay-forward message to a DHCPv6 server.

Message forwarding method, system, and relay agent device

The present disclosure provides a message forwarding method and system, and a relay agent device. The forwarding method includes receiving a first dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) for Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 (DHCPv6 ) message from a DHCPv6 client through a layer-3 interface, generating a relay-forward message, where the first DHCPv6 message is encapsulated into the relay-forward message and an identifier (ID) of the layer-3 interface is added therein, and sending the relay-forward message to a DHCPv6 server.

The present disclosure provides a message forwarding method and system, and a relay agent device. The forwarding method includes: receiving a first DHCPv6 message from a DHCPv6 client through a layer-3 interface; generating a Relay-forward message, where the first DHCPv6 message is encapsulated into the Relay-forward message and an identifier of the layer-3 interface is added therein; and sending the Relay-forward message to a DHCPv6 server.

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Chenggang Li