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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2021
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guangdong, CN;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
This application provides a BIER packet sending method. The method includes: receiving a BIER packet that is encapsulated using an IPv6 protocol and that is sent by a second forwarding device, where the BIER packet includes an IPv6 basic header and a BIER header, a destination address field in the IPv6 basic header is a first IPv6 address of the first forwarding device; determining, based on an identifier corresponding to a first IPv6 address in a forwarding table, to perform BIER forwarding on the BIER packet, where the identifier is used to indicate that the first IPv6 address is a destination address for BIER forwarding. In the technical solution provided in this application, a node may determine, based on the identifier of the first IPv6 address, to perform BIER forwarding on the BIER packet.