This disclosure relates to the field of
network communication technology, and in particular provides a
message processing method, apparatus, electronic device, storage medium, and program product. The
message processing method is applied to a cloud gateway
forwarding plane node based on Vector
Packet Processing (VPP), and includes: in response to detecting that the type of the uplink inner packet is an
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request packet, adjusting the ingress interface of the uplink inner packet to the uplink
physical interface, wherein the uplink inner packet corresponds to the original packet sent by the terminal; pointing the next
processing node of the uplink inner packet to an ARP proxy node in the cloud gateway
forwarding plane node; and generating an ARP proxy response packet corresponding to the uplink inner packet based on the uplink
physical interface through the ARP proxy node. This method, by implementing ARP packet proxy
processing locally on the cloud gateway
forwarding plane, can reduce the
processing complexity and
resource consumption of the cloud gateway forwarding plane, and improve
message forwarding efficiency.