Patent ID: 11882026
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A second node in a network and comprising:
a memory configured to store a computer program instruction; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to execute the computer program instruction to cause the second node to:
receive an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet comprising a second segment identifier, wherein the second segment identifier is a Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) segment identifier (SID), wherein, the SRv6 SID instructs the IPv6 packet to be forwarded through a path computed according to a strict shortest path first (SPF) algorithm, and wherein the SRv6 SID corresponds to an SPF flag;
determine a first path according to the SRv6 SID; and
forward the IPv6 packet through the first path.