公开(公告)号：US20180123826A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15854368

申请日：2017-12-26

Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Dayong WANG ,  Xi LIU ,  Bo LIANG

IPC: H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/931 ,  H04L29/06

CPC classification number: H04L12/465 ,  H04L45/50 ,  H04L45/586 ,  H04L45/64 ,  H04L49/354 ,  H04L49/70 ,  H04L63/0272

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for communicating by using a remote network element port, and an apparatus, and the method is applied to a virtual network element. The virtual network element includes a master node and an egress AP, and the master node adds a first layer VLAN tag to a virtualization packet according to a virtual port corresponding to the virtualization packet to allow the egress AP to distinguish between the virtualization packet and a non-virtualization packet according to the first layer VLAN tag, and, based on the distinguishing, the virtualization packet is correctly processed.