Patent ID: 9699080
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for determining a management domain, wherein the method is applicable to a virtual cluster, the virtual cluster comprises a first network device and a second network device, the virtual cluster comprises at least two management domains, and the first network device manages a first management domain, the method comprising: receiving, by the second network device, a first packet sent by the first network device, wherein the first packet comprises a domain identifier (ID) of the first management domain and a first Internet Protocol (IP) address set corresponding to the domain ID of the first management domain, and the first IP address set comprises an IP address of a network device in the first management domain; when the second network device determines that the first IP address set comprises an IP address of the second network device, determining that the second network device belongs to the first management domain, and storing the domain ID of the first management domain; and after the second network device determines that the second network device belongs to the first management domain, sending, by the second network device, a second packet to a network device corresponding to a first IP address, wherein the second packet comprises topology information of the second network device, the first IP address is any IP address in the first IP address set, and the first IP address is different from the IP address of the second network device.