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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2023
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guangdong, CN;
Fanghong Duan, Nanjing, CN;
Jingrong Xie, Beijing, CN;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a bit index explicit replication over internet protocol version 6 (BIERv6) packet processing method, and the method is applied to an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN). The method includes: A first network device receives a BIERv6 packet sent by a second network device. The BIERv6 packet includes an internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) header and a broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) packet, a source address (SA) of the IPv6 header is a IPv6 address, the IPv6 address identifies the second network device, the first network device is an egress device in a BIER domain, and the second network device is an ingress device in the BIER domain. The first network device determines, based on the IPv6 address, a EVPN instance to which the BUM packet belongs. The first network device forwards the BUM packet based on the EVPN instance. The foregoing technical solutions can reduce waste of public network link bandwidth, and improve BUM packet replication efficiency.