Patent ID: 11876773
Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 1:
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before determining, by the forwarding chip, an IP address of a target device, the method further comprises:
receiving, by the forwarding chip, a data message, wherein the data message comprises an IP address of a destination device;
determining, by the forwarding chip, an IP address of a target device, which comprises:
determining, by the forwarding chip, whether the destination device is a direct routing device of the device to which the forwarding chip belongs;
when the destination device is a direct routing device of the device to which the forwarding chip belongs, taking, by the forwarding chip, the IP address of the destination device as the IP address of the target device; and
when the destination device is not a direct routing device of the device to which the forwarding chip belongs, querying, by the forwarding chip, a pre-stored routing table according to the IP address of the destination device, so as to obtain an IP address of a device corresponding to a next-hop node, and taking the obtained IP address of the device corresponding to the next-hop node as the IP address of the target device.