SDN Layer 2 Forwarding Method and System

A two-layer forwarding and forwarding table technology, applied in the field of computer networks, can solve the problems of overloading the controller, consuming storage resources, affecting the performance of table lookup, etc., and achieves the effect of reducing difficulty and workload, reducing storage space, and reducing scale

Active Publication Date: 2022-02-25
ZTE CORP
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The high-order host IPMAC address forwarding table not only consumes the storage resources of TSW, but more importantly, affects the performance of the table lookup and increases the cost of maintaining and managing a large number of host MAC address forwarding tables.
The number of tables on the switch has skyrocketed. When the host goes offline or migrates, a large number of flow tables need to be updated, which may easily cause the controller to be overloaded, and does not reflect the advantages brought by network virtualization.

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[0073]In the communication scenario of hosts on the same network segment belonging to different WAs, before sending a Layer 3 packet, the host first checks whether it has the MAC address of the destination IP. If not, the host first sends an ARP request, and the IP address requested by the ARP message is the IP address of the destination host, and is sent to the controller on the TSW. The controller generates a globally unique Proxy MAC and sends an ARP proxy to the requesting host. The controller learns the IP address and MAC address of the host requesting ARP, calculates the path according to the SPF, sends the Layer 2 forwarding table to all switches in the path, and sends the host routing table to all CSW controllers in the path. At the same time, the controller will check whether there is an entry record of the MAC address of the ARP Request, if not, the controller will send an ARP broadcast message, and the ARP request will be broadcast on all the trunk ports of the TSW....

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[0091] In instance 1, Proxy MAC is the only proxy MAC in the network topology. When the CSW queries the host routing table, it queries the host MAC address corresponding to the destination IP in the entire network host routing table. The breadth of the query is to maximize the range of queries in the host routing table. When the number of host routing tables increases sharply, the query range and difficulty also increase proportionally. Considering the two-layer optimization that reduces complexity and improves performance, Example 2 proposes a Proxy MAC that uniquely identifies a switch based on different TSWs, and the host connected to the TSW is associated with the Proxy MAC of the TSW to which it belongs. Hosts under different TSW switches use Proxy MAC, the unique identifier of the TSW to which the target host belongs. When the CSW receives the Layer 3 data packet, it can query the host routing table according to the Proxy MAC corresponding to the TSW. Precisely narrow...

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The invention discloses an SDN layer two forwarding method and system. The method includes: when the controller performs the address resolution protocol APR proxy to the source host, setting the MAC address of the destination host in the ARP response sent to the source host as a pre-generated proxy MAC address; the source host and the destination host use the proxy MAC address The interactive data packet is encapsulated as the destination host MAC address and sent to the switch; the switch forwards the interactive data packet encapsulated with the proxy MAC address between the source host and the destination host according to the forwarding table sent by the controller. Used to indicate the forwarding path of ICMP Layer 3 packets encapsulated with the proxy MAC address. By means of the technical scheme of the present invention, the scale of the switch looking up the forwarding table can be reduced, the performance of the switch looking up the table and forwarding the message can be improved, and the difficulty and workload of maintaining the forwarding table can be further reduced.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of computer networks, in particular to an SDN two-layer forwarding method and system. Background technique [0002] Software Defined Network (SDN for short) is a hot research technology in the current communication field. The SDN consists of two parts: a controller (Controller, C for short) on the control plane and a switch (Switch, SW or S for short) on the forwarding plane. According to the definition of current SDN technology, the controller Controller and the switch Switch issue control instructions through the OPENFLOW (OF) protocol to guide the data flow forwarding on the switch; the controller also uses the Network Configuration Protocol (Netconfig) to Perform parameter configuration on the switch SW. Among them, the OF protocol is a forwarding / control separation protocol proposed by Stanford University in the United States in 2008. The external control plane entity uses the OF protocol to control t...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04L45/00H04L45/74
CPCH04L45/54H04L45/66H04L45/74H04L9/40
Inventor 曹静
Owner ZTE CORP
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