Packet forwarding method, packet sending apparatus, and packet receiving apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11991012B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17241464

    申请日:2021-04-27

    发明人: Jingrong Xie Yang Xia

    摘要: A packet forwarding method. The method includes: a first node configures a first identifier of a first VPN and a first IPv6 address on a control plane. The first node sends a first indication message to a second node, where the first indication message carries the first identifier and the first IPv6 address. The second node first determines, based on locally configured information about the first VPN and the first identifier in the first indication message, a second identifier that is of the second node and that satisfies a preset correspondence with the first identifier, and then establishes a correspondence between the first IPv6 address and the second identifier. The first node encapsulates, on a forwarding plane based on the first IPv6 address, a multicast data packet belonging to the first VPN, to obtain a to-be-forwarded BIER packet and sends the to-be-forwarded BIER packet.

    EVPN host routed bridging (HRB) and EVPN cloud native data center

    公开(公告)号:US11902160B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-13

    申请号:US17452309

    申请日:2021-10-26

    摘要: Techniques for EVPN Host Routed Bridging (HRB) and EVPN cloud-native data center with Host Routed Bridging (HRB) are described. A host computing device of a data center includes one or more containerized user-level applications. A cloud native virtual router is configured for dynamic deployment by the data center application orchestration engine and operable in a user space of the host computing device. Processing circuitry is configured for execution of the containerized user-level applications and the cloud native virtual router. The cloud native virtual router comprises a containerized routing protocol process configured to operate as a control plane, and a data plane for the containerized router. The data plane is configured to operate an ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) encapsulation/decapsulation data path of an overlay network for communicating layer two (L2) network traffic of the containerized user applications over a switch fabric of the data center.

    Route advertisement method, device, and system

    公开(公告)号:US11888722B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-30

    申请号:US17367003

    申请日:2021-07-02

    发明人: Jingjing Zhao

    CPC分类号: H04L45/02 H04L45/74

    摘要: A route advertisement method is applied to a network in which a cross-domain end-to-end tunnel carries a service. The cross-domain end-to-end tunnel crosses at least two Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) network domains, and the at least two IGP network domains include a first network device, a second network device, and a third network device. The route advertisement method includes receiving, by the first network device, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) service routing information from the second network device, where the BGP service routing information includes a destination address and a next-hop address to the destination address, skipping, by the first network device, performing route recursion on the next-hop address, and advertising, by the first network device, the BGP service routing information to the third network device.

    AUTOMATIC POLICY CONFIGURATION FOR PACKET FLOWS

    公开(公告)号:US20230146525A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-11

    申请号:US17450147

    申请日:2021-10-06

    发明人: Darrell Ball

    IPC分类号: H04L12/741 H04L12/721

    CPC分类号: H04L45/745 H04L45/38

    摘要: Techniques are disclosed for providing automatic policy configuration for packet flows. For example, a computing device comprises a virtual node and one or more virtual execution elements coupled to the virtual node. The computing device may also comprise one or more processors configured to: receive a packet originating from an application workload hosted on the one or more virtual execution elements and destined for a remote destination device; determine the packet is part of a new packet flow; in response, configure, by a kernel of the computing device and without sending the packet to a user space of the computing device, a policy for a forward packet flow for the new packet flow; configure, by the kernel, a policy for a reverse packet flow associated with the forward packet flow; and send the packet toward the remote destination device in accordance with the policy for the forward packet flow.

    Lightweight host multihoming
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11641336B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-02

    申请号:US16888577

    申请日:2020-05-29

    摘要: Described herein are systems and methods for host multihoming with no state synchronization between top-of-rack (ToR) switches coupled to multiple hosts. ToR switches of a multi-homing system share a virtual MAC address and respond to Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests and/or Neighbor Discovery (ND) solicitations for a default gateway IP address from the host with the virtual MAC address. Ports on a ToR switch may be configured either with a static ARP and/or ND entry, or be configured to learn via a discovery protocol. The lightweight host multihoming system may have modified flooding behavior, ARP/ND handling, and data path forwarding. ARP/ND traffic from a host is processed by a ToR switch, while other multicast traffic may be discarded. Embodiments of the host multihoming system provide a lightweight solution for software implementation with minimal changes imposed on the host or network design.