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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Applicant:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4675 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes a second provider edge (PE) device sending, to a first PE device, a media access control (MAC) route learned from a customer edge (CE) device, wherein the first PE device generates a MAC forwarding entry based on the MAC route, wherein the first PE device may forward, based on the MAC forwarding entry using the CE device, a packet whose destination MAC address is the CE device or a MAC address of a terminal device accessing the CE device, and wherein an outbound interface identifier included in the MAC forwarding entry is an identifier of an interface connected to the CE device.