A MESSAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND THE METHOD THEREOF

摘要

The present invention discloses a packet processing apparatus and method. The packet processing apparatus is applied to an L4ˆ¼L7 network device, including a plurality of interface processing units and a plurality of service processing units, the interface processing units are connected with the service processing units through a first connection unit; and each of the interface processing units is adapted to select, after receiving a packet from outside, a service processing unit from all the service processing units and transmit the packet to the selected service processing unit; and each of the service processing units is adapted to perform service processing to the packet after receiving the packet. The present invention improves packet processing capability and reliability of the L4ˆ¼L7 network device.