Patent ID: 11949585
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A packet sending apparatus, applied to a first forwarding device and comprising:
a non-transitory memory storing instructions; and
a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory; wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to be configured to:
receive an internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet from a second forwarding device, wherein the IPv6 packet comprises an IPv6 basic header and a bit index explicit replication (BIER) information, and a destination address field in the IPv6 basic header comprises a first IPv6 address of the first forwarding device;
determine that the first IPv6 address in the destination address field in the IPv6 basic header matches an identifier stored in the first forwarding device; and
determine, according to the identifier corresponding to the first IPv6 address, to perform BIER forwarding on the IPv6 packet.