Label management method, data stream processing method, and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11233732-B2
Application number	US-201816025258-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2018
Priority date	Dec 30, 2015
Publication date	Jan 25, 2022
Grant date	Jan 25, 2022

Abstract

A label management method, a data stream processing method, and a device, where the label management method includes allocating, by a controller, a source label to a data stream, sending, by the controller, a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update packet to an ingress network device on a label switching path (LSP) of the data stream, and sending a second BGP update packet to an egress network device on the LSP of the data stream, where the first BGP update packet includes a stream identifier of the data stream and the source label, and the second BGP update packet includes a mapping relationship between the source label and a source object of the data stream. Hence, configuration, management, and maintenance can be simplified.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A label management method, comprising:
allocating, by a controller, a source label to a data stream, wherein the source label indicates a source object, wherein the source object is an object from which the data stream originates, and wherein the source object of the data stream comprises an ingress network device from which the data stream originates, a virtual private network (VPN) instance on the ingress network device from which the data stream originates, or a customer edge (CE) of the VPN instance on the ingress network device from which the data stream originates;
sending, by the controller, a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update packet to the ingress network device on a label switching path (LSP) of the data stream; and
sending, by the controller, a second BGP update packet to an egress network device on the LSP of the data stream, wherein the first BGP update packet comprises a stream identifier of the data stream and the source label, and wherein the second BGP update packet comprises a mapping relationship between the source label and the source object of the data stream.

2. The label management method of claim 1 , wherein the source label is unique in the egress network device.

3. The label management method of claim 1 , wherein the first BGP update packet further comprises a source label identifier indicating that a label type comprises the source label.

4. The label management method of claim 3 , wherein the second BGP update packet carries a source identifier attribute, and wherein the source identifier attribute comprises a type field indicating that the label type comprises the source label, and a source label field and a source object identifier field determining the mapping relationship between the source label and the source object of the data stream.

5. The label management method of claim 1 , wherein the source label is unique in the egress network device on a label switching path of the data stream.

6. The label management method of claim 1 , wherein the ingress network device comprises a communications port, a memory, and a processor.

7. The label management method of claim 1 , wherein the stream identifier comprises a name.

8. The label management method of claim 1 , wherein the stream identifier comprises routing information.

9. The label management method of claim 1 , wherein the source label comprises a network layer reachability information (NLRI) field.

10. The label management method of claim 9 , wherein the NLRI field comprises an NLRI type field and an NLRI length field.

11. The label management method of claim 10 , wherein the NLRI type field indicates that a label type is the source label, and wherein the NLRI length field indicates an NLRI length.

12. A data stream processing method, applied to an ingress network device on a label switching path (LSP) of a data stream, comprising:
receiving, by the ingress network device, a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update packet from a controller;
receiving, by the ingress network device, the data stream from a customer edge (CE), wherein the first BGP update packet comprises a stream identifier of the data stream and a source label allocated by the controller to the data stream, wherein the source label indicates a source object, wherein the source object is an object from which the data stream originates, and wherein the source object of the data stream comprises the ingress network device from which the data stream originates, a virtual private network (VPN) instance on the ingress network device from which the data stream originates, or the CE of the VPN instance on the ingress network device from which the data stream originates;
encapsulating, by the ingress network device, the source label and a forwarding label in the data stream identified by the stream identifier; and
sending, by the ingress network device, the data stream to an egress network device on the LSP of the data stream according to the forwarding label to enable the egress network device to identify, according to the source label, the source object from which the data stream originates.

13. The data stream processing method of claim 12 , wherein the source label is unique in the egress network device.

14. The data stream processing method of claim 12 , wherein the first BGP update packet further comprises a source label identifier indicating that a label type comprises the source label, and wherein the source label identifier is encapsulated in the data stream.

15. A data stream processing method, applied to an egress network device on a label switching path (LSP) of a data stream, comprising:
receiving, by the egress network device, a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update packet from a controller;
receiving, by the egress network device, the data stream from an ingress network device, wherein a source label allocated by the controller to the data stream is encapsulated in the data stream, wherein the BGP update packet comprises a mapping relationship between the source label and a source object of the data stream, wherein the source label indicates the source object, wherein the source object is an object from which the data stream originates, and wherein the source object of the data stream comprises the ingress network device from which the data stream originates, a virtual private network (VPN) instance on the ingress network device from which the data stream originates, or a customer edge (CE) of the VPN instance on the ingress network device from which the data stream originates; and
identifying, by the egress network device according to the source label and the mapping relationship between the source label and the source object of the data stream, that the data stream originates from the source object.

16. The data stream processing method of claim 15 , wherein the source label is unique in the egress network device.

17. The data stream processing method of claim 15 , wherein a source label identifier indicates that a label type comprises the source label encapsulated in the data stream.

18. The data stream processing method of claim 17 , wherein the BGP update packet carries a source identifier attribute, and wherein the source identifier attribute comprises a type field indicating that the label type comprises the source label, and a source label field and a source object identifier field determining the mapping relationship between the source label and the source object of the data stream.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Che Jia
• Zhuang Shunwan
• Li Zhenbin
• Chen Shuanglong

Classifications

• H04L45/50 Primary

  using label swapping, e.g. multi-protocol label switch [MPLS] · CPC title

• H04L41/0803

  Configuration setting · CPC title

• H04L12/4641

  Virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN] (LAN interconnection over a bridge based backbone H04L12/462; encapsulation techniques H04L12/4633; routing of packets H04L45/00; packet switches H04L49/00; virtual private networks for security H04L63/0272) · CPC title

• H04L45/507 Primary

  Label distribution · CPC title

• H04L12/4633

  Interconnection of networks using encapsulation techniques, e.g. tunneling · CPC title