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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2013
Hangzhou H3c Technologies Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, Zhejiang, CN;
Xuewei Liang, Beijing, CN;
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A stacking port extension member receives a packet, forwards the packet according to a destination port number of the packet when a destination forwarding chip identifier (ID) of the packet is a local forwarding chip ID, determine whether the packet is transmitted to a lower-level stacking port extension member when the destination forwarding chip ID of the packet is not the local forwarding chip ID, forward the packet according to a configured forwarding relationship towards the lower-level stacking port extension member when it is determined that the packet is transmitted to the lower-level stacking port extension member, and otherwise, directly forward the packet through a locally configured uplink second-level stacking port.