Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Hangzhou H3c Technologies Co., Ltd

New H3c Technologies Co., Ltd.

Xiaoheng Song

Guoliang Zheng

VTEP receives a packet, VXLAN-encapsulates and sends a mirror packet of the packet to a remote VTEP accessed by a monitoring server, or ends the mirror packet to a local monitoring server according to the execution action of a matching first forwarding entry if the packet is a user packet from a local monitored host; VXLAN-encapsulates and sends the mirror packet to a remote VTEP accessed by the monitoring server, or sends the mirror packet to the local monitoring server according to the execution action of a matching second forwarding entry if the packet is a user packet sent from a local host to the monitored host. If the packet is a VXLAN packet with the identifier of the monitoring server from the remote VTEP, the VXLAN packet is de-encapsulated to be sent to the local monitoring server according to the execution action of a matching third forwarding entry.

Packet monitoring

Provided is a flow path detection method. The method comprises: a controller in an SDN network issuing reporting indication information to a forwarding device in the SDN network, wherein the reporting indication information is used for instructing the forwarding device to report, when receiving a message matching a pre-determined message feature, message forwarding information corresponding to the message, and the pre-determined message feature comprises: a source IP address and a destination IP address of a detection message for detecting a path, and a controller identifier of a controller; the controller receiving the message forwarding information reported by a plurality of forwarding devices according to the reporting indication information; and according to the received message forwarding information reported by the plurality of forwarding devices, determining a forwarding path between the source IP address and the destination IP address for the detection message.

Flow path detection

According to an example, virtual machine (VM) migration may include generating a redundant tunnel between a common edge device (ED) of a plurality of common EDs of a multi-site network (MSN) and a gateway ED of the MSN. A gateway media access control (MAC) address and a static route may be configured for forwarding an Internet protocol (IP) message between the common ED and the gateway ED using the redundant tunnel.

Virtual machine migration

A control device may manage a switch device within a same software defined network (SDN) of the control device, manage a topology structure of an SDN corresponding to the SDN instance managed by the control device, and calculate flow paths based on the topology structure.

Establishing instance in software defined network

The present disclosure provides a method and an edge device for accessing an IP network. A record is pre-configured to associate and record a port number, a VLAN ID and an EVI service instance ID in the record. A first packet is received from a user side. A corresponding EVI service instance ID is searched in the record according to a port number of a port through which the first packet is received, and a VLAN ID of the first packet. The first packet is then forwarded in an EVI service instance corresponding to the EVI service instance ID.

Accessing IP network and edge devices

When a User Edge Device (UED) receives a unicast packet from a user side, the UED searches in a Media Access Control (MAC) table. When a matching entry in the MAC table is found, the UED forwards the unicast packet locally. When no matching entry in the MAC table is found, the UED transmits the unicast packet to a Network Edge Device (NED). When the UED receives a broadcast packet from the user side, the UED broadcasts the broadcast packet within a same Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) of a local site and forwards to the NED.

Forward packet with edge device

An ED within EVI network establishes an EVI tunnel for bearing Ethernet packets and an EVI extension tunnel for bearing IP packets, where both the EVI tunnel and the EVI extension tunnel are connected to a peer ED. The ED sends an Ethernet packet for layerforwarding in an EVI forwarding instance through the EVI tunnel; and sendsan IP packet for layerforwarding in the EVI forwarding instance through the EVI extension tunnel.

Packet forwarding

According to an example, in a method for MAC address distribution by an apparatus, a MAC address is received in the apparatus, in which the apparatus includes a data store on which is stored a local slice set containing a plurality of slices, and in which each of the plurality of slices is assigned a respective slice identifier. An address value for the received MAC address may be determined and a correlation between the determined address value and one of the slice IDs of the plurality of slices may be identified. In addition, the received MAC address may be stored in the slice having the slice identifier identified as being correlated to the determined address value.

MAC address distribution

A method and system for managing protocol connection in a PBB network and a BEB node. A first BEB node in the PBB network receives a Pseudo Wire (PW) connection requesting message sent by a second BEB node which has a PBB instance. When it is determined according to the PW connection requesting message that the first BEB node has the same PBB instance as that of the second BEB node, the first BEB node sends a PW response message back to the second BEB node and establishes protocol connection between the first BEB node and the second BEB node for forwarding backbone frame.

Method and system for managing protocol connection in PBB network and BEB node

The disclosure relates to a method for transmitting a message in a Hierarchical Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (H-L2VPN). A destination MAC address, to which a message is to be forwarded upon receiving the message, is determined by a first peer node of the network. The first peer node determines whether one or more equivalent pseudo wires (PWs) connected thereto form a path to the destination MAC address. When it is determined that more than one equivalent PW forms a path to the destination MAC address, an arbitrary equivalent PW is selected from the more than one equivalent PW by the first peer node. The first peer node sends the message, via the selected equivalent PW, to a second peer node of the network connected to the selected equivalent PW for forwarding to the destination MAC address.

Message transmission in virtual private networks

A method of and a device for enabling load balancing for Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) are provided. The method is applied to a process of transmitting data between two Provider Edge (PE) devices that adopt a protection mechanism of primary and backup tunnels. The method comprises allocating, by a source PE device located at a head node of a tunnel, traffic to each of the primary and backup tunnels in a current transmission period based on transmission performance information about each of the primary and backup tunnels in a previous transmission period fed back by a destination PE device located at a tail node of the tunnel, when a set transmission period comes; and obtaining, by said source PE device, the traffic allocated to each of the tunnels and transmitting data to the destination PE device via the corresponding tunnels.

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Xiaoheng Song