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US08086908B2 Apparatus and a method for reporting the error of each level of the tunnel data packet in a communication network 有权
用于报告通信网络中隧道数据分组的每个级别的错误的装置和方法

Apparatus and a method for reporting the error of each level of the tunnel data packet in a communication network
Abstract:
The invention provides methods and devices for reporting and parsing the errors of a packet based on IPSec protocol family in a communication network. Concretely, the reserved field in ICMP security failure message is used to denote the error type at the second level of the error in the packet. With the aid of the solution provided by the invention, it is possible to report the error types for a tunnel packet which has an error in detail. And the source termination device can ascertain the error types of a tunnel packet, so as to eliminate the error.
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