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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2022
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
This application provides a packet sending method. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, a data packet, and encapsulating the data packet to obtain a first packet, where the first packet includes an IPv6 header, a bit index explicit replication BIER header, and the data packet, and some bits of a source IPv6 address field in the IPv6 header include identification information of a first tenant; and sending, by the first network device, the first packet to a second network device, where the identification information of the first tenant is used by the second network device to determine to send the data packet to an interface, corresponding to the first tenant, of the second network device.