Patent ID: 11888960
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. The method according to claim 6, wherein the third network device and the first network device are different network devices, the first network device is located between the third network device and the fourth network device, and before sending the first packet to the second network device, the method further comprises:
receiving, by the first network device, a second packet from an upstream network device, wherein a control packet header of the second packet comprises the second number and a third number, and the third number is a number of the second packet in a process of transmitting the second packet between the upstream network device and the first network device; and
modifying, by the first network device, the third number in the control packet header of the second packet to the first number, to obtain the first packet.