INFORMATION RECEIVING AND SENDING METHODS AND APPARATUSES

摘要

Information receiving and sending methods and apparatuses. The information receiving method comprises: when a control plane apparatus is enabled to manage a forwarding plane apparatus, the forwarding plane apparatus receiving information that is sent by the control plane apparatus and used for computing a packet forwarding path, the forwarding plane apparatus and the control plane apparatus being located in a network with a control and forwarding separation network architecture. By means of the technical solutions provided by embodiments of the present invention, the forwarding plane apparatus does not need to actively acquire the information used for computing a packet forwarding path before computing the packet forwarding path based on the information used for computing the packet forwarding path.