Patent ID: 8730979

Claim:
A method for improving forwarding efficiency of a virtual private LAN services (VPLS) network, comprising: a root node provider edge (PE) in the VPLS network establishing a point-to-multipoint pseudo wire (P2MP PW) to leaf nodes PE within the same VPLS; the root node provider edge (PE) in the VPLS network transmitting at least one of broadcast message, multicast message and unknown unicast message to the leaf nodes PE within the same VPLS through the point-to-multipoint pseudo wire (P2MP PW), wherein all or part of the PEs in the VPLS network transmits at least one of the broadcast message, multicast message and unknown unicast message through the P2MP PW; after receiving a data message sent by the root node PE through the P2MP PW, the leaf node PE forwarding the data message to a recipient, and learning a media access control (MAC) address, taking a source MAC address of the data message as an index entry of MAC forwarding table and a point-to-point pseudo wire (P2P PW) between present PE and the root node PE as an output interface, thus forming a MAC forwarding table corresponding to a unicast message.