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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2021
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes receiving, by a first device, a data packet, and extracting first address information of the data packet, where the first address information indicates a VNF; retrieving, by the first device based on the first address information, an SRv6 tunnel policy that corresponds to the first address information and that is from a SRv6 tunnel list; obtaining, by the first device, a forwarding path corresponding to a first SRv6 VPN SID, where the forwarding path is used as a data transmission path when the first device communicates with a second device corresponding to the first SRv6 VPN SID; and forwarding, by the first device, the data packet to the VNF based on the forwarding path.