US 11,870,690 B2
Packet processing method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
Lei Bao, Nanjing (CN); Juhua Xu, Nanjing (CN); and Zhibo Hu, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Sep. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/903,325.
Application 17/903,325 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2021/080820, filed on Mar. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010188162.8 (CN), filed on Mar. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0417144 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 43/067 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/566 (2013.01) [H04L 43/067 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first network device, a packet, wherein the packet comprises a slice identifier of a network slice and a control identifier field, wherein the control identifier field indicates whether forwarding of the packet is allowed when a resource corresponding to the slice identifier fails to be matched, and wherein
the first network device fails to match the resource corresponding to the slice identifier; and
discarding, by the first network device, the packet based on a value of the control identifier field indicating that the forwarding of the packet is not allowed when the resource corresponding to the slice identifier fails to be matched.