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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2018
New H3c Technologies Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, CN;
Liwei Huang, Beijing, CN;
Wei Wang, Beijing, CN;
NEW H3C TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
A packet-transmission method, a local edge device and a machine-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving a first notification message from an opposite edge device, parsing out a first host route from the first notification message, and adding a first forwarding table entry to a software forwarding table, wherein the first forwarding table entry includes a correspondence between the first host route and an interface receiving the first notification message; inquiring, after receiving a packet, a hardware forwarding table according to a destination address of the packet, if there is no forwarding table entry matched with the destination address in the hardware forwarding table, inquiring the software forwarding table according to the destination address of the packet, if there is a forwarding table entry matched with the destination address in the software forwarding table, sending the packet according to the forwarding table entry matched with the destination address.