Patent ID: 11863440
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for forwarding a packet in a network, wherein the network comprises a first network device and a second network device, there are a plurality of forwarding paths between the first network device and the second network device, and the method comprises:
receiving, by the first network device, a first packet, wherein the first packet comprises first indication information and payload data, wherein the indication information is a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) label or an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address;
when the first network device determines that the first packet comprises the first indication information, generating, by the first network device, a plurality of second packets based on the first packet, wherein each of the plurality of second packets comprises the payload data and second indication information; and
separately forwarding, by the first network device, the plurality of second packets to the second network device over different forwarding paths in the plurality of forwarding paths, wherein the second indication information is used to instruct the second network device to discard a packet in the plurality of second packets except a packet that first reaches the second network device.