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Data forwarding method and system, electronic device, and storage medium

Grant US12580846B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

ZTE CORPORATION

Inventors

Qianyu Wang

Abstract

Disclosed are a data forwarding method and system, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The data forwarding method is applied to a forwarding device in an overlay network; the forwarding device is communicationally connected to a management device; the management device is configured to manage at least one forwarding device; each forwarding device includes multiple virtual members. The method includes: receiving a forwarding strategy distributed by a management device, wherein the forwarding strategy includes: if a forwarding device is a first-hop device, selecting the next hop in a first group, or if the forwarding device is a non-first-hop device, selecting the next hop in a second group, the first group contains all virtual members of an equal-cost multi-path routing (ECMP) group of the forwarding device, and the second group contains only local virtual members of the ECMP group; and performing data forwarding according to the forwarding strategy.

CPC Classifications

H04L 45/24 H04L 12/4633 H04L 45/38 H04L 45/586 H04L 47/125 H04L 45/02 H04L 45/42 H04L 45/50 H04L 45/64 H04L 12/46

Filing Date

2022-05-07

Application No.

18690729

Claims

17