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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guangdong, CN;
Kun Tan, Beijing, CN;
Wei-Liang Shen, Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
This application discloses a method and an apparatus for forwarding a packet based on an integrated flow table. The integrated flow table includes a plurality of flow entries, each of the plurality of flow entries includes a mapping relationship between a match item and an operation set, the match item includes a plurality of packet header fields, and the method includes: obtaining a first packet; extracting a plurality of first packet header fields from a packet header of the first packet; searching the integrated flow table for a target flow entry matching the plurality of first packet header fields, to determine an operation set corresponding to the first packet; and performing the other operations in the operation set on the first packet, to obtain a second packet corresponding to the first packet, and forwarding the second packet.