Port address configuration method, forwarding device and controller

A technology of forwarding equipment and configuration method, applied in the field of network communication, can solve the problems of being prone to errors and low efficiency, and achieve the effect of avoiding cumbersome operations and reducing the risk of configuration errors

Active Publication Date: 2022-02-11
NEW H3C TECH CO LTD
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In a relatively large SDN network, manually configuring the underlay network parameters of the forwarding device is extremely inefficient and error-prone

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[0050] In this embodiment, one forwarding device in the SDN network may be used as the first forwarding device, and another forwarding device connected to the first forwarding device may be used as the second forwarding device, wherein the first forwarding device of the first forwarding device A service port is connected to the second service port of the second forwarding device. Please refer to figure 2 , figure 2 It is a schematic flowchart of a port address configuration method applied to the first forwarding device, and each step of the method is explained in detail below.

[0051] Step S110, sending device characteristic information of the first forwarding device to the controller through a management port.

[0052] In this embodiment, the device feature information includes a network identity feature of the first forwarding device, a device identity feature, and a port identity feature of the first service port.

[0053] An SDN network can include multiple physicall...

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[0100] Please refer to Figure 7 , Figure 7 As an address configuration method applied to the controller, each step of the method is explained below.

[0101] Step S210, receiving device feature information sent by the forwarding device through the management port.

[0102] Step S220, assigning an address identifier to the service port of the forwarding device according to the device feature information and sending it to the forwarding device.

[0103] For the detailed interaction process between the controller and the forwarding device, reference may be made to the relevant description of the first embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

[0104] Optionally, the device feature information includes a network identity feature of the first forwarding device, a device identity feature, and a port identity feature of the first service port. In step S210, the controller may assign an address identifier to the service port of the forwarding device according to the network i...

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[0107] Please refer to Figure 8 , Figure 8 A schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a forwarding device provided in this embodiment. The server may include a processor 730 and a machine-readable storage medium 720 . The processor 730 and the machine-readable storage medium 720 can communicate via a system bus. In addition, the machine-readable storage medium 720 stores machine-executable instructions. When the machine-executable instructions are executed by the processor 730, the forwarding device can be used as the first forwarding device to execute the instructions described in the first embodiment of the present application. address configuration method.

[0108] The machine-readable storage medium 720 referred to herein may be any electronic, magnetic, optical, or other physical storage device that may contain or store information, such as executable instructions, data, and the like. For example, the machine-readable storage medium 720 can be: RAM (Radom Access...

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Abstract

The present application provides a port address configuration method, a forwarding device and a controller. The method includes: the first forwarding device in the SDN network sends the device feature information of the first forwarding device to the controller through a management port; The information is the first address identifier assigned by the first service port; through the first service port, the first LLDP packet sent by the second forwarding device is received, and the first LLDP packet includes the second address identifier of the second service port; if the second An address identification is greater than the second address identification, then the IP address mapped by the first address identification is used as the IP address of the first service port; if the first address identification is not greater than the second address identification, then according to the second address identification, generate the first IP address of the service port. In this way, the unified automatic configuration of the service port address of the underlay network is realized, the tedious operation of manual configuration is avoided, and the risk of configuration errors is reduced.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to the technical field of network communication, in particular, to a port address configuration method, a forwarding device and a controller. Background technique [0002] In a software-defined network (Software Define Network, SDN), after configuring information such as the IP address, managed account, and password of each forwarding device on the controller, the controller can issue configurations related to overlay network services to the forwarding device. Thus, the forwarding service of the overlay network is automatically controlled. [0003] But for the underlay network, the establishment of the network requires the administrator to log in to each forwarding device to manually configure the underlay network parameters. For example, at the stage of forwarding device deployment and online, the administrator needs to manually configure the IP addresses of the ports connected to each other on each forwarding device. ...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04L61/5007H04L41/0823
CPCH04L41/0876H04L61/50H04L61/5007Y02D30/00
Inventor 宋小恒
Owner NEW H3C TECH CO LTD
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