Packet transmission
AssigneeNew H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsXiaoting JIN, Wei WANG
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Abstract
A method of transmitting a packet, a controller and a cloud management platform are provided. According to an example of the method, the controller may receive a packet from a virtual switch; obtain a forwarding priority corresponding to the packet; and generate a flow entry corresponding to the packet, wherein the flow entry is used to perform encapsulation of a specified type on a packet matching the flow entry and add the forwarding priority into the encapsulated packet; and distribute the flow entry to the virtual switch so that the virtual switch is capable of sending the packet using the flow entry.
Claims12
A method of transmitting a packet, comprising:
- receiving, by a controller, a packet from a virtual switch;
- obtaining, by the controller, a forwarding priority corresponding to the packet;
- generating, by the controller, a flow entry corresponding to the packet, wherein the flow entry is used to perform encapsulation of a specified type on a packet matching the flow entry and add the forwarding priority into the encapsulated packet;
- and
- distributing, by the controller, the flow entry to the virtual switch so that the virtual switch is capable of sending the packet using the flow entry.
A method of transmitting a packet, comprising:
- receiving, by a cloud management platform, a query request message from a controller;
- querying, by the cloud management platform, a pre-configured mapping between an identifier and a forwarding priority according to information carried in the query request message to obtain the forwarding priority corresponding to the information;
- and
- sending, by the cloud management platform, a query response message carrying the forwarding priority to the controller so that the controller is capable of generating a flow entry, wherein the flow entry is used to perform encapsulation of a specified type on a packet matching the flow entry and add the forwarding priority into the encapsulated packet.
A controller, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing machine-executable instructions which are executable by the processor to:
- receive a packet from a virtual switch;
- obtain a forwarding priority corresponding to the packet;
- generate a flow entry corresponding to the packet, wherein the flow entry is used to perform encapsulation of a specified type on a packet matching the flow entry and add the forwarding priority into the encapsulated packet;
- and
- distribute the flow entry to the virtual switch so that the virtual switch is capable of sending the packet using the flow entry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.