METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BY USING REMOTE NETWORK ELEMENT PORT, AND APPARATUS

• US 20180123826A1
• Filed: 12/26/2017
• Published: 05/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: WANG, Dayong, LIU, Xi, LIANG, Bo
• Granted Patent: US 10,491,423 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/465 wherein a single frame includes a plurality of VLAN tags
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/50 using label swapping, e.g. multi-protocol label switch [MPLS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/586 of virtual routers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/64 using an overlay routing layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/354 for supporting virtual local area networks [VLAN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/70 Virtual switches
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for communicating by using a remote network element port, and an apparatus, and the method is applied to a virtual network element. The virtual network element includes a master node and an egress AP, and the master node adds a first layer VLAN tag to a virtualization packet according to a virtual port corresponding to the virtualization packet to allow the egress AP to distinguish between the virtualization packet and a non-virtualization packet according to the first layer VLAN tag, and, based on the distinguishing, the virtualization packet is correctly processed.

Claims

1. A method for communicating by using a remote network element port, wherein the method is applied to a virtual network element, wherein the virtual network element comprises a master node and an egress access point (AP), wherein the egress AP is a remote network element of the master node, and the method comprises:

determining, by the master node, a virtual port corresponding to a virtualization packet;

adding, by the master node, a first layer virtual local area network (VLAN) tag to the virtualization packet according to the determined virtual port corresponding to the virtualization packet;

sending, by the master node, the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag;

determining, by the egress AP, a remote network element port corresponding to the virtualization packet according to the first layer VLAN tag;

removing, by the egress AP, the first layer VLAN tag from the virtualization packet; and

sending, by the egress AP after the removing, the virtualization packet to a network device other than the virtual network element by using the remote network element port corresponding to the virtualization packet.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the master node has multiple virtual ports, wherein each virtual port of the master node corresponds to one first layer VLAN tag, and wherein each first layer VLAN tag corresponds to one remote network element port.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one intermediate AP, and the sending, by the master node, the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag comprises:

sending, by the master node, the virtualization packet to the intermediate AP according to the first layer VLAN tag; and

forwarding, by the intermediate AP, the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one interface board, and wherein after the adding the first layer VLAN tag to the virtualization packet according to the virtual port corresponding to the virtualization packet, the method further comprises:

adding, by the master node, a second layer tag to the virtualization packet outside the first layer VLAN tag; and

wherein the sending, by the master node, the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag comprises;

sending, by the master node, the virtualization packet to a target interface board in the at least one interface board according to the second layer tag;

determining, by the target interface board, a transmit port of the virtualization packet according to the second layer tag; and

removing, by the target interface board, the second layer tag, and sending the virtualization packet to the egress AP by using the transmit port.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one intermediate AP, and wherein the sending the virtualization packet to the egress AP by using the transmit port comprises:

sending, by the target interface board, the virtualization packet to the intermediate AP by using the transmit port; and

forwarding, by the intermediate AP, the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the second layer tag is a distributed switching architecture (DSA) header.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the second layer tag is a second layer VLAN tag.

8. A virtual network element, wherein the virtual network element comprises a master node and an egress access point (AP), wherein the egress AP is a remote network element of the master node, and wherein:

the master node is configured to;

determine a virtual port corresponding to a virtualization packet;

add a first layer virtual local area network (VLAN) tag to the virtualization packet according to the determined virtual port corresponding to the virtualization packet; and

send the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag;

the egress AP is configured to;

determine a remote network element port corresponding to the virtualization packet according to the first layer VLAN tag;

remove the first layer VLAN tag from the virtualization packet; and

send, after removing the first layer VLAN tag from the virtualization packet, the virtualization packet to a network device other than the virtual network element by using the remote network element port corresponding to the virtualization packet.

9. The virtual network element according to claim 8, wherein the master node has multiple virtual ports, wherein each virtual port of the master node corresponds to one first layer VLAN tag, and wherein each first layer VLAN tag corresponds to one remote network element port.

10. The virtual network element according to claim 8, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one intermediate AP, wherein:

the master node is configured to send the virtualization packet to the intermediate AP according to the first layer VLAN tag; and

the intermediate AP is configured to forward the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag.

11. The virtual network element according to claim 8, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one interface board, and wherein:

the master node is further configured to;

add a second layer tag to the virtualization packet outside the first layer VLAN tag; and

send the virtualization packet to a target interface board in the at least one interface board according to the second layer tag; and

wherein the target interface board is configured to;

determine a transmit port of the virtualization packet according to the second layer tag;

remove the second layer tag; and

send the virtualization packet to the egress AP by using the transmit port.

12. The virtual network element according to claim 11, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one intermediate AP, wherein:

the master node is configured to send the virtualization packet to the intermediate AP by using the transmit port; and

the intermediate AP is configured to forward the virtualization packet to the egress AP according to the first layer VLAN tag.

13. The virtual network element according to claim 11, wherein the second layer tag is a distributed switching architecture (DSA) header.

14. The virtual network element according to claim 11, wherein the second layer tag is a second layer VLAN tag.

15. A virtual network element, wherein the virtual network element comprises a master node and an ingress access point (AP), and wherein the ingress AP is a remote network element of the master node, and wherein:

the ingress AP is configured to;

receive a packet sent by a network device other than the virtual network element;

in response to a determination that the packet sent by the network device is a virtualization packet, add a first layer virtual local area network (VLAN) tag to the virtualization packet according to a corresponding remote network element port that receives the virtualization packet, wherein the ingress AP comprises at least one remote network element port, and wherein one remote network element port of the ingress AP corresponds to one first layer VLAN tag; and

forward the virtualization packet to the master node according to the first layer VLAN tag;

the master node is configured to;

determine a virtual port corresponding to the virtualization packet according to the first layer VLAN tag, wherein the master node has multiple virtual ports, and wherein one virtual port of the master node corresponds to one first layer VLAN tag;

remove the first layer VLAN tag from the virtualization packet; and

after removing the first layer VLAN tag from the virtualization packet, forward the virtualization packet according to the virtual port corresponding to the virtualization packet.

16. The virtual network element according to claim 15, wherein the master node has multiple virtual ports, wherein each virtual port of the master node corresponds to one first layer VLAN tag, and wherein each first layer VLAN tag corresponds to one remote network element port.

17. The virtual network element according to claim 15, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one intermediate AP, wherein:

the ingress AP is configured to send the virtualization packet to the intermediate AP according to the first layer VLAN tag; and

the intermediate AP is configured to forward the virtualization packet to the master node according to the first layer VLAN tag.

18. The virtual network element according to claim 15, wherein the virtual network element further comprises at least one interface board, and wherein the ingress AP is further configured to forward the virtualization packet to a target interface board in the at least one interface board according to the first layer VLAN tag;

wherein the target interface board is configured to;

add a second layer tag to the virtualization packet outside the first layer VLAN tag according to a receive port of the virtualization packet; and

forward the virtualization packet to the master node according to the second layer tag; and

wherein the master node is further configured to;

determine, according to the second layer tag, that the received packet is a virtualization packet; and

remove the second layer tag from the virtualization packet.

19. The virtual network element according to claim 18, wherein the second layer tag is a distributed switching architecture (DSA) header.

20. The virtual network element according to claim 18, wherein the second layer tag is a second layer VLAN tag.