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Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;

Inventor:

Weiqi Hu, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a switch processing method, a controller, a switch, and a switch processing system. The method provided by the embodiments of the present invention is executed by the controller and a logical Switch, where the logical Switch includes at least two physical Switches. The method includes: allocating, by the controller, a flow table of the logical Switch to each physical Switch; sending, by the controller, mapping information, so that each physical Switch obtains the mapping information; and sending, by the controller, flow entries, so that each physical Switch obtains flow entries corresponding to each physical switch and processes a data packet. For the logical Switch for executing the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, new physical Switches may be stacked on a basis of a physical structure of the logical Switch.


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