US 12,170,618 B2
Packet sending method, device and system
Jingrong Xie, Beijing (CN); Zhenbin Li, Beijing (CN); and Gang Yan, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Jun. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/849,113.
Application 17/849,113 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/118611, filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201911356936.7 (CN), filed on Dec. 25, 2019; and application No. 202010363531.2 (CN), filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0337521 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 45/74 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 45/76 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/76 (2022.05) [H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first network device, a data packet, and encapsulating, by the first network device, the data packet to obtain a first packet, wherein the first packet comprises an internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) header, a bit index explicit replication (BIER) header and the data packet, and a number of bits of a source IPv6 address field in the IPv6 header indicate identification information of a first tenant of the data packet; and
sending, by the first network device, the first packet to a second network device, wherein the identification information of the first tenant indicates a first interface to which the data packet is to be sent by the second network device, the first interface corresponding to the first tenant.