Packet forwarding method and apparatus

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a packet forwarding method and apparatus, which relates to the technical field of communications. The solution of the present disclosure includes: receiving a first packet from a user-side device; caching the first packet in a first scheduling queue, corresponding to a deterministic flow to which the first packet belongs, in a first queue sequence, wherein the first queue sequence includes a first number of cyclically consecutive scheduling queues, the first number is a ratio between an outbound interface rate of the first network device and a minimum inbound interface rate of the first network device, the outbound interface rate is a rate of an outbound interface for forwarding the first packet; forwarding the packet in the first scheduling queue to a second network device according to a scheduling cycle of the first scheduling queue. When the transmission rate span of deterministic flow is large, the deterministic transmission of each deterministic flow can be realized, which is more in line with the requirements of deterministic services.

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