| CPC H04L 69/22 (2013.01) [H04L 45/16 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |

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1. A message processing method, comprising:
receiving, by means of a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) processing engine of a chip, a message to be processed, wherein the BFD processing engine has stored head Maintenance End Points (MEP);
if a head MEP corresponding to the message to be processed is not found in the BFD processing engine of the chip, judging whether to forward the message to be processed to a processor; and
if it is judged to forward the message to be processed to the processor, saving an information of the message in a client MEP in the processor;
wherein receiving, by means of the BFD processing engine of the chip, the message to be processed comprises:
receiving, by means of an ingress processing engine of the chip, the message to be processed;
parsing the message to be processed, and judging whether the message to be processed is legal according to a parsing result; and
if the message to be processed is legal, searching for a head MEP corresponding to the message to be processed in the BFD processing engine of the chip.
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