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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
May. 10, 2023
Applicant:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/5007 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 101/659 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 2101/659 (2022.05); H04L 2463/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
A packet processing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: on a forwarding path of an IPv6 packet, a key node (for example, a firewall) signs a packet, and a downstream apparatus of the key node verifies the signature, to determine whether the packet passes through the key node in a forwarding process. According to this application, the key node performs checking, to effectively prevent a packet which packet header is modified by attackers from bypassing the key node.