Patent ID: 8681805

Claim:
A method for interconnecting a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network and an Ethernet, comprising: receiving a packet sent by a node located at the Ethernet, wherein an Ethernet label is encapsulated in the packet; switching the Ethernet label in the packet to a pseudo wire (PW) label according to a preset mapping relationship between Ethernet labels and PW labels; performing MPLS encapsulation on the packet in which the label has been switched; and sending the encapsulated packet to a node located at the MPLS network; wherein the Ethernet label includes a Destination Media Access Control (D-MAC) address, a Source Media Access Control (S-MAC) address, and a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag, and the switching the Ethernet label in the racket to the PW label comprises: removing the D-MAC and S-MAC addresses; and switching the VLAN tag with the PW label.