Bier message forwarding method and apparatus, and storage medium
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorsBenchong XU, Zheng ZHANG
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Abstract
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for forwarding a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) packet, and a storage medium. The method may include: receiving a first BIER packet generated by a third node, wherein the first BIER packet comprises a first BIER packet header and a BIER segment list, the first BIER packet header comprises first node information, and the BIER segment list comprises second node information; changing the first node information in the first BIER packet header into the second node information to obtain a second BIER packet header; and forwarding a second BIER packet corresponding to the second BIER packet header to a second node corresponding to the second node information.
Claims20
A method for forwarding a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) packet, applied to a first node, the method comprising:
- receiving a first BIER packet generated by a third node, wherein the first BIER packet comprises a first BIER packet header and a BIER segment list, the first BIER packet header comprises first node information, and the BIER segment list comprises second node information;
- changing the first node information in the first BIER packet header into the second node information to obtain a second BIER packet header;
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- forwarding a second BIER packet corresponding to the second BIER packet header to a second node corresponding to the second node information.
A method for forwarding a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) packet, applied to a third node, the method comprising:
- obtaining a first BIER packet according to a designated forwarding path, wherein the first BIER packet comprises a first BIER packet header and a BIER segment list, the first BIER packet header comprises first node information, and the BIER segment list comprises second node information;
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- forwarding the first BIER packet to a first node corresponding to the first node information according to the first BIER packet header, wherein a second BIER packet generated at the first node comprises the second node information.
A method for forwarding a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) packet, applied to a fifth node in a BIER network, the method comprising:
- receiving a first BIER packet, wherein the first BIER packet comprises a first BIER packet header, and the first BIER packet header comprises first node information;
- determining, according to the first node information, whether the fifth node is a first node corresponding to the first node information;
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- forwarding the first BIER packet to the first node in response to the fifth node being not the first node.
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