| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to the communications field, and discloses a packet processing method, an apparatus, and a system, so that context processing can be separately performed on a packet by using distributed forwarding-plane devices, so as to improve load balance during the context processing of the network packet. The method includes: receiving, by an ingress network element, a flow entry sent by a control network element; receiving, by the ingress network element, a packet; performing, by the ingress network element, matching on the packet according to the flow entry, and acquiring a packet on which context processing is performed this time; forwarding, by the ingress network element, the packet to a processing network element, so that the processing network element performs context processing on the packet, or forwards the packet to a processing network element for context processing after performing context processing on the user. Embodiments of the present invention are applied to context processing of a packet. |
