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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2022
Applicant:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;

Inventors:

Fang Wang, Beijing, CN;

Jianbin Xu, Beijing, CN;

Tao Bai, Shenzhen, CN;

Yongkang Zhang, Nanjing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 47/122 (2022.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/122 (2013.01); H04L 47/828 (2013.01); H04L 47/829 (2013.01);
Abstract

This application discloses a service packet forwarding method and related apparatus. In the service packet forwarding method, when receiving a packet sent by any second virtual resource module connected to a first service function forwarder (SFF), the first SFF dynamically determines a forwarding path of the packet based on configuration information of a second virtual resource module for implementing a second service function, to achieve dynamic load balancing on the packet instead of relying on a service function chain ingress node to perform load balancing, so as to reduce pressure on the service function chain ingress node.


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