摘要 |
<p>A provider edge apparatus comprises an ingress processing unit to generate an encapsulated frame to be transmitted to another provider edge apparatus coupled to another customer edge apparatus, wherein the encapsulated frame includes a frame directed to the another customer edge apparatus, an egress processing unit to extract a frame to be forwarded to the specified customer edge apparatus, a storage to store an identifier of the provider edge apparatus and an identifier of the another provider edge apparatus when the specified customer edge apparatus is coupled to the another edge apparatus via a second access line, wherein the identifiers corresponds to a group identifier indicating an access line group belonging the first access line and the second access line, and a filter to discard the encapsulated frame or a frame in the encapsulated frame satisfying a filter condition.</p> |