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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2019
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Lihao Chen, Beijing, CN;
Mingui Zhang, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A load sharing method includes: establishing a first tunnel and a second tunnel between a first network device and a second network device, where the first tunnel and the second tunnel form a bonding tunnel through hybrid bonding; sending, by the first network device, a plurality of data packets to the second network device; determining, by the first network device, a usage status of buffer space of a bonding tunnel reorder buffer of the second network device based on an acknowledgment response returned by the second network device; and performing, based on the usage status and according to a specified load sharing policy, load sharing between the first tunnel and the second tunnel for a packet to be transmitted by the first network device to the second network device.