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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2023
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Zhaoyang Yan, Nanjing, CN;
Haibo Wang, Beijing, CN;
Xia Chen, Beijing, CN;
Juan Zheng, Nanjing, CN;
Shuying Liu, Beijing, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of this application disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting a virtual private network segment identifier (VPN SID), and a network device. An egress node sends a VPN SID corresponding to the egress node to each node in a network, and indicates to each node to store the VPN SID of the egress node. In this way, both an ingress node and each intermediate node can sense and store the VPN SID. When a VPN service needs to be provisioned, because each node stores the VPN SID of the egress node, it is possible for each node to associate the VPN SID with a forwarding entry of the VPN service to be provisioned in a forwarding table, to implement VPN route convergence. In addition, for a of a VPN corresponding to the VPN SID and that is sent by a user side, both the ingress node and the intermediate node can guide forwarding of the packet based on a locally stored VPN SID, to implement VPN service-level control.