A method and an apparatus for network configuration

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for network configuration are provided. In this application, the NETCONF client generates configuration logs for distributed network configurations, based on the configuration log, the last network configuration that the NETCONF client successfully sent before the NETCONF connection was abnormal (that is, the target network configuration described above) can be directly located, then the network configuration download proceeds starting from the next network configuration of the target network configuration, which realizes that the NETCONF client will not repeat the network configuration downloaded before the NETCONF connection is restored to normal, and avoids the NETCONF server from receiving the duplicate network configuration.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to network communication technology, in particular to a network configuration method and device. Background technique [0002] Network Configuration (NETCONF) is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) based configuration protocol. After the NETCONF connection is established between the NETCONF client and the NETCONF server, the NETCONF client sends the network configuration to the NETCONF server through the NETCONF connection, which realizes more flexible and convenient network configuration. The network configuration here can be open flow (OPENFLOW) configuration, port configuration, quality of service (QoS) configuration, firewall policy, etc. In the application, the NETCONF client can be a controller, and the NETCONF server can be a firewall, load balancer, switching device, etc. [0003] However, when the NETCONF client delivers the network configuration, the NETCONF client often fails to deliver the rest of the netwo...

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[0003] However, in the process of delivering network configurations from the NETCONF client, the NETCONF client can only deliver part of the network configuration to the NETCONF server and cannot continue to deliver the remaining network configurations due to abnormal NETCONF connections.

For example, the NETCONF client needs to deliver five network configurations (configuration 1 to configuration 5) to the NETCONF server, and the NETCONF client delivers the network configurations to the NETCONF server one by one from the starting position in order. After sending configuration 3, the remaining two network configurations (configuration 4 and configuration 5) cannot be delivered to the NETCONF server due to abnormal NETCONF connection.

After the above-mentioned NETCONF connection returns to normal, the NETCONF client will start sending from the starting position again, which will cause the NETCONF server to receive duplicate network configurations

Still taking the above 5 configurations as an example, after the above NETCONF connection returns to normal, the NETCONF client sends network configurations to the NETCONF server one by one from the starting position in order, which will cause the NETCONF server to receive duplicate configurations 1 to configuration 3

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