Patent ID: 11888960
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the third network device and the first network device are a same network device, the second network device is a network device on a first path between the first network device and the fourth network device, a fifth network device is a network device on a second path between the first network device and the fourth network device, and the method further comprises:
sending, by the first network device, a fifth packet to the fifth network device, wherein a control packet header of the fifth packet comprises a fifth number and the second number, the fifth number is a number of the fifth packet in a process of transmitting the fifth packet between the first network device and the fifth network device, and payloads of the first packet and the fifth packet are the same.