Disclosed are a method, equipment and system for forwarding packets in an Information Centric Network (ICN). The method includes: content request packets sent by a first route node in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) are received by a first route node in a public network; the content request packets carry the content name of the request content and the private identification for identifying the request content as the private content; the container identification of the first container for storing the request content is obtained; the content request packets are forwarded according to the container identification of the first container so as to forward the content request packets to a second route node in the VPN, and the content response packets carrying the request content are returned according to the content name of the request content.