Patent ID: 11863446
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A user group-based packet forwarding method, comprising:
receiving, by a first network device, a first service packet sent by first user equipment, wherein the first service packet comprises information about the first user equipment, and a destination of the first service packet is second user equipment;
determining, by the first network device, whether the first network device comprises a first user group corresponding to the information about the first user equipment, wherein the first user group is a user group to which the first user equipment belongs;
determining, by the first network device based on a determining result of whether the first network device comprises the first user group corresponding to the information about the first user equipment, first group information indicating an interworking policy for transmitting the first service packet between the first user equipment and the second user equipment;
generating a first segment routing over internet protocol version 6 (SRv6) packet that comprises the first group information and the first service packet; and
sending, by the first network device, the first SRv6 packet to a second network device, wherein the second network device communicates with the second user equipment.