Method and device for forwarding message
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsChengyong LIN, Enhui LIU
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Abstract
A method for forwarding message, comprising: receiving, by a forwarding plane device, a first message, and looking up a first entry matched with the first message in a flow table of the forwarding plane device, wherein the forwarding plane device is a device compliant with a network architecture in which control and forwarding are separated; performing, by the forwarding plane device, a first operation on the first message for limiting its message forwarding rate according to the first entry. Further, a corresponding device is also provided in an embodiment of this disclosure. With the technical solutions provided in embodiments of this disclosure, the forwarding plane device can put limits on its message forwarding rate.
Claims18
A method for forwarding message, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a forwarding plane device, a first message, wherein the forwarding plane device is a device compliant with a network architecture in which control and forwarding are separated;
- looking up, by the forwarding plane device, a first entry matched with the first message in a flow table of the forwarding plane device;
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- performing, by the forwarding plane device, a first operation on the first message for limiting a message forwarding rate of the forwarding plane device according to the first entry.
A device for forwarding message, the device comprising:
- a receiving unit for receiving a first message;
- a matching unit for looking up a first entry matched with the first message in a flow table of a forwarding plane device, wherein the forwarding plane device is a device compliant with a network architecture in which control and forwarding are separated;
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- a processing unit for performing a first operation on the first message for limiting a message forwarding rate of the forwarding plane device according to the first entry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.