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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Hangzhou H3c Technologies Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, Zhejiang, CN;
Inventors:
Xiaoheng Song, Beijing, CN;
Guoliang Zheng, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ED within EVI network establishes an EVI tunnel for bearing Ethernet packets and an EVI extension tunnel for bearing IP packets, where both the EVI tunnel and the EVI extension tunnel are connected to a peer ED. The ED sends an Ethernet packet for layerforwarding in an EVI forwarding instance through the EVI tunnel; and sendsan IP packet for layerforwarding in the EVI forwarding instance through the EVI extension tunnel.