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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2018
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for keeping network address translation mapping alive are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a network address translation NAT device, a probe request sent by an internal network device; sending a probe response to the internal network device, where the probe response carries indication information, and the indication information indicates that the internal network device does not actively initiate a heartbeat message to keep network address translation mapping alive; allocating at least two public network addresses to the internal network device from an address resource pool, and using in each time period of a subsequent session process between the internal network device and an external network device, one of the at least two public network addresses as a current active address in the time period, to map the private network address of the internal network device to the current active address.