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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2014
Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
ZTE CORPORATION, Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and system for encapsulating a flow identifier. The method for encapsulating a flow identifier comprises: in the case where flow table matching is successfully performed on a packet, an OpenFlow switch adds a flow identifier to the packet; and the OpenFlow switch invokes a pre-saved function entry to assign a value to the flow identifier, so as to complete the encapsulation of the flow identifier. The disclosure achieves the effect of enabling an OpenFlow network node to take a hash calculation result of some fields of an original packet before encapsulation as the assignment of a new added flow identifier, which is required by the encapsulation of the flow identifier.