Granted Patent B2

US 12,206,576 · App. 17/618,293 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Inventor: Xinming Yan (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

H04L45/50H04L12/4641H04L45/66

Abstract

Claims (24)

1. A method for message forwarding for Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN), comprising:

reading an Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) label from a message in response to the message containing the ESI label after receiving the message from an upstream device within a same Ethernet Segment (ES) in EVPN, and obtaining a port for the ES corresponding to the ESI label according to the ESI label;

reading an egress port for the message; and

discarding the message in response to the port for the ES corresponding to the ESI label obtained according to the ESI label being the same as the egress port for the message.

2. The method for message forwarding for EVPN of claim 1 , in response to the upstream device comprising an upstream Customer Edge (CE) device, further comprising:

encapsulating the ESI label into the received message in response to an access circuit being a non-Designated Forwarder (non-DF) after the message is received from the upstream CE device.

3. The method for message forwarding for EVPN of claim 2 , wherein encapsulating the ESI label into the received message comprises:

adding an ESI flag field and an ESI label value field into header information of the received message, the ESI flag field being configured for marking whether the ESI label is encapsulated in the header information or not.

4. The method for message forwarding for EVPN of claim 3 , wherein adding an ESI flag field and an ESI label value field into header information of the received message comprises:

taking one of a plurality of bits in a reserved field of the header information of the message as the ESI flag field, and taking all or part of the plurality of bits other than the one bit taken as the ESI flag field in the reserved field as the ESI label value field;

determining that no ESI label is encapsulated in the header information of the message in response to the value of the ESI flag field being 0; and determining that a content of the ESI label value field is valid in response to the value of the ESI flag field being 1.

5. The method for message forwarding for EVPN of claim 1 , wherein reading an ESI label from a message in response to the message containing the ESI label comprises:

reading the header information of the message; and

judging whether the ESI label is encapsulated in the header information according to the ESI flag field contained in the header information, and reading the ESI label value from the ESI label value field contained in the header information in response to a judgment result that the ESI label is encapsulated in the header information.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for message forwarding for Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) comprising:

reading an Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) label from a message in response to the message containing the ESI label after receiving the message from an upstream device within a same Ethernet Segment (ES) in EVPN, and obtaining a port for the ES corresponding to the ESI label according to the ESI label;

reading an egress port for the message; and

discarding the message in response to the port for the ES corresponding to the ESI label obtained according to the ESI label being the same as the egress port for the message.

7. A terminal device for message forwarding for Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN), comprising:

a memory, configured to store computer-executable instructions; and

a processor, configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to perform a method for message forwarding for EVPN comprising:

reading an Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) label from a message in response to the message containing the ESI label after receiving the message from an upstream device within a same Ethernet Segment (ES) in EVPN, and obtaining a port for the ES corresponding to the ESI label according to the ESI label;

reading an egress port for the message; and

discarding the message in response to the port for the ES corresponding to the ESI label obtained according to the ESI label being the same as the egress port for the message.

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