The invention relates to the technical field of computer networks, in particular to a two-layer network bridge equipment
management system and method based on an ICMP protocol. According to the technical scheme, the two-layer network bridge equipment
management system based on the ICMP protocol comprises an ICMP message interception and preprocessing module, an instruction analysis and
safety control module, a lightweight instruction execution and state acquisition module and a response packaging and priority sending module; according to the invention, an independent
management plane which is logically decoupled with a two-layer
forwarding plane and runs in parallel with the two-layer
forwarding plane is constructed, and a bypass interception mechanism is implanted into an
IP layer of a network
protocol stack, so that all inflowing IP data packets are monitored and screened in real time before being submitted to an upper-layer
protocol stack or a forwarding engine; the response message does not pass through the conventional bridging query and forwarding logic, and the whole
data path from the receiving of the management request to the final response is ensured, so that the operation and maintenance personnel can still carry out remote command and
information transmission under the condition that the bridging function is completely paralyzed.