Patent ID: 8898334

Claim:
A method for data forwarding, comprising: an Ingress Tunnel Router (ITR) of the first domain receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) packet from a first host of a first domain; the ITR determining whether the IP packet is an initial packet, and if the determination result is NOT, encapsulating the IP packet; the ITR forwarding the encapsulated IP packet to a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) border server of the first domain; the DHT border server of the first domain decapsulating the encapsulated IP packet, and forwarding the decapsulated IP packet to a DHT border server of a second domain; the DHT border server of the second domain encapsulating the received decapsulated IP packet, and forwarding the IP packet encapsulated by the DHT border server of the second domain to an Egress Tunnel Router (ETR) of the second domain; and the ETR of the second domain decapsulating the IP packet encapsulated by the DHT border server of the second domain, and forwarding the decapsulated IP packet to a second host of the second domain.