Patent ID: 11902156
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. The network device according to claim 10, wherein the network device is a controller in a network, and the at least one processor is further configured to execute the programming instructions to cause the network device to:
generate a second control packet, wherein the second control packet comprises the compressed segment list and a second flag, and the second flag is used to indicate that the compressed segment list comprises the compressed segment identifier;
generate a fourth control packet corresponding to the compressed segment list, wherein the fourth control packet comprises a fourth flag, and the fourth flag is used to indicate a length of each compressed segment identifier in the compressed segment list;
send the second control packet to a network ingress node; and
send the fourth control packet to a node on the packet forwarding path.