Patent ID: 8549286

Claim:
A method for sharing private network addresses allocation information, comprising: receiving address allocation information of another private network through a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) tunnel; saving the address allocation information, wherein the address allocation information is used to judge whether a destination address of a data packet belongs to the another private network when the data packet is received; and forwarding a data packet whose destination address belongs to the another private network to an SSL Virtual Private Network (VPN) device of the another private network to which the destination address belongs over the SSL tunnel with a session ID transmitting the address allocation information, according to the address allocation information and a mapping relation between the address allocation information and a public network Internet Protocol (IP) address of the SSL VPN device transmitting the address allocation information and the session ID of the SSL tunnel transmitting the address allocation information, wherein if the SSL tunnel fails, requesting the SSL VPN device to recover the SSL tunnel according to the session ID.