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

Claim 0:
1. A packet sending method, wherein the method comprises:
receiving, by a first forwarding device, 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; and
performing, by the first forwarding device, BIER forwarding on the IPv6 packet according to an identifier stored in the first forwarding device, in response to the identifier corresponding to the first IPv6 address;
wherein the performing, by the first forwarding device, BIER forwarding on the IPv6 packet according to the identifier stored in the first forwarding device comprises:
determining, by the first forwarding device, that the first IPv6 address in the destination address field in the IPv6 basic header matches the identifier in the first forwarding device; and
determining, by the first forwarding device, according to the identifier corresponding to the first IPv6 address, to perform BIER forwarding on the IPv6 packet.