US 2016/0080483 A1 · METHOD FOR SETTING GATEWAY DEVICE IDENTITY, AND MANAGEMENT GATEWAY DEVICE

Abstract

Embodiments of the present application disclose a method for setting a gateway device identity, and a management gateway device. The method includes: acquiring a negotiation packet of a gateway device; acquiring a gateway device priority carried in the negotiation packet; and setting a member identity of the gateway device according to the gateway device priority. According to the method and the device, complexity of selecting an active virtual gateway device or an active virtual forwarding device among multiple gateway devices can be reduced, and the processing efficiency of a service mechanism of traffic load sharing of multiple gateway devices can be enhanced.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for setting a gateway device identity, comprising:

acquiring a negotiation packet of a gateway device;
acquiring a gateway device priority carried in the negotiation packet;
and
setting a member identity of the gateway device according to the gateway device priority.

1 more element

A management gateway device, comprising a packet acquiring module, a priority acquiring module, and an identity setting module, wherein:

the packet acquiring module is configured to acquire a negotiation packet of a gateway device;
the priority acquiring module is configured to acquire a gateway device priority carried in the negotiation packet;
and
the identity setting module is configured to set a member identity of the gateway device according to the gateway device priority.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/948,829Filed 23 Nov 2015

Priority

CN 201310204579.929 May 2013

Published

17 Mar 2016

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

H04L 67/1008
Server selection for load balancing: based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload
H04L 12/6418
Hybrid switching systems: hybrid transport
H04L 12/66
Data switching networks: arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
H04L 47/125
Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion: by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering

Method for setting gateway device identity, and management gateway device

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Method for setting gateway device identity, and management gateway device

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Abstract

Claims20