Patent ID: 11936552
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. The method according to claim 17, wherein performing forwarding according to the label operation of the matching ILM forwarding entry and the VPN SID or VPN label corresponding to the next-hop node comprises at least one of the following:
in a case where the label operation of the ILM forwarding entry is swapping the incoming MPLS label to the outgoing SRv6 SID, by the border node, popping out the top label of the packet, encapsulating an IPv6 packet header, modifying the destination address of the packet into the VPN SID corresponding to the next-hop node, and forwarding the packet to the next-hop node;
in a case where the label operation of the ILM forwarding entry is swapping the incoming MPLS label to the outgoing MPLS label, by the border node, modifying the top label of the packet into the VPN label corresponding to the next-hop node, and forwarding the packet to the next-hop node.