Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Pengcheng Tang

Wei Zhou

Yan Wang

Hui Ni

Konstantinos Pentikousis

Wei Wei

Han Zhou

Hongbo Tian

Xuejiao Yang

A packet processing method, device and system includes: receiving, by a switching device, a packet, where there is a correspondence in the switching device between a prefix and a generic flow entry, where the correspondence is created by using the prefix as an index, and a match field of the generic flow entry corresponding to the prefix includes the prefix; acquiring, by the switching device according to the prefix, a bit field that is in the packet and that is used for matching; and performing matching, by the switching device, between a value of the bit field and a data parameter of the match field of the generic flow entry corresponding to the prefix.

Prefix matching based packet processing method, switching apparatus, and control apparatus

Embodiments of the present invention provide a network control method and apparatus. The network control method includes: receiving, by a first network controller, a request message of a forwarding plane device, where the request message includes information that is used to indicate a network event and information that is used to instruct to request a processing policy of the network event, and the first network controller is a primary network controller of the forwarding plane device; and if the first network controller determines, according to the request message, that the first network controller cannot provide the processing policy, sending, by the first network controller, the request message to a second network controller, receiving the processing policy sent by the second network controller, and sending the received processing policy to the forwarding plane device.

Network control method and apparatus

The present invention discloses a flow table generating method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by an SDN controller, a user data packet processing manner of a VAS server that is sent by a VAS server information collector; generating a flow table according to service chain information of a user data packet, the user data packet processing manner of the VAS server, and a 5-tuple of the user data packet; and sending the flow table to an SDN switch, so that the SDN switch can send the user data packet to a corresponding VAS server according to the flow table, thereby implementing access of the user data packet to a related VAS server in a case in which a VAS server modifies a 5-tuple of a user data packet.

Flow table generating method and apparatus

A flow table management method, devices, and systems. The flow table management method includes: generating, by a software defined network controller, a first flow table entry, where a first field set in the first flow table entry carries an index of an actual value in the first field set, and the first field set includes N fields; and sending, by the software defined network controller, an OpenFlow protocol message to an OpenFlow switch, where the OpenFlow protocol message carries the first flow table entry. The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention helps reduce a data volume of flow table entries delivered by an SDN controller to an OpenFlow switch, thereby reducing overheads of a control channel to reduce a congestion risk of the control channel, and reducing occupied network processing resources of the SDN controller and the OpenFlow switch to deliver the flow table entries.

Flow table management method, and related device and system

A packet tunneling method, a switching device, and a control device are provided. The method includes: a switching device receives a tunnel flow table entry delivered by the control device, where the tunnel flow table entry is used to determine a to-be-tunneled packet and indicate a tunneling operation to be performed on the to-be-tunneled packet; determines according to the tunnel flow table entry, whether the received first packet is the to-be-tunneled packet; and when the first packet is the to-be-tunneled packet, and tunnels the first packet according to the tunnel flow table entry. Because the switching device supports a tunnel flow table, when a packet is transmitted in a mobile packet network by using the OpenFlow protocol, tunnel encapsulation or decapsulation can be performed on the packet by using the tunnel flow table entry delivered by the control device, thereby enhancing a packet processing capability in the mobile packet network.

Packet tunneling method, switching device, and control device

A network storage method, a switch device, and a controller are provided. The method is applicable to a controller based on OpenFlow protocol. The method includes: determining, by the controller, that a first switching equipment is to cache data requested by a first data packet; and notifying, by the controller, the first switching equipment to cache the data requested by the first data packet, and notifying the first switching equipment to establish a first flow table entry according to issued match information corresponding to the first data packet and issued action instruction information corresponding to the first data packet, wherein the action instruction information corresponding to the first data packet is adapted to instruct the first switching equipment to forward the data cached in the first switching equipment and requested by the first data packet.

Network storage method, switch device, and controller

Embodiments of the present invention provide a packet processing method, device and system. The method includes: receiving, by a switching device, a packet, where there is a correspondence in the switching device between a prefix and a generic flow entry, where the correspondence is created by using the prefix as an index, and a match field of the generic flow entry corresponding to the prefix includes the prefix; acquiring, by the switching device according to the prefix, a bit field that is in the packet and that is used for matching; and performing matching, by the switching device, between a value of the bit field and a data parameter of the match field of the generic flow entry corresponding to the prefix. The embodiments of the present invention can reduce a quantity of times of generic field extraction from a packet and improve processing efficiency.

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