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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to the communications field, and specifically, to a flow table processing method and an apparatus. The method includes: monitoring, by a switch, a flow table load of the switch; when the flow table load of the switch exceeds a preset threshold, determining, by the switch, a diffusion target of a target data flow according to a matching rule of a diffusive flow table; and when the determined diffusion target is a neighboring switch of the switch, forwarding, by the switch, the target data flow to the neighboring switch. When the flow table load of the switch exceeds the preset threshold, the switch may have been attacked. A data flow that fails to be matched to a flow entry is forwarded to the neighboring switch according to a diffusion probability, for processing by the neighboring switch.