A method, processing system and processor-readable medium for generating network configurations using a graph neural network (GNN) are provided. The method may include receiving a first matrix M generated based on a set of network requirements; storing a GNN having a plurality of nodes v and a plurality of edges; initializing the GNN based on a second matrix X.sub.v having a plurality of elements, each element corresponding to a node from a plurality of nodes v of the GNN; and generating an output matrix having a plurality of nodes labelled based on the first matrix M.

A method for updating route information includes a monitored network element establishes a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Monitoring Protocol (BMP) connection to a monitoring network element, and sends a first message to the monitoring network element when detecting a synchronization requirement of BGP route information, where the first message instructs the monitoring network element to update a BGP route information set, and the BGP route information set includes at least one piece of BGP route information. The first message indicates an update set, and the update set updates the BGP route information set.

An ingress network device may receive a core domain network segment identifier associated with a core domain network of the multi-domain network. The ingress network device may receive location data of an egress network device associated with a second leaf domain network of the multi-domain network, wherein the location data may include data identifying the core domain network segment identifier, a second leaf domain network segment identifier associated with the second leaf domain network, and an egress network device segment identifier associated with the egress network device. The ingress network device may store the core domain network segment identifier and the location data, and may utilize the core domain segment identifier and the location data to route traffic to the egress network device.

A controller, including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor for managing a first autonomous system (AS), the program including instructions to receive a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing message, determine a destination node, the destination node belonging to the first AS, determine, according to a node that sends the first BGP routing message, whether to perform incoming-traffic adjustment and control, allocate a source node from a second AS directly connected to the first AS, obtain a preferred path between the source and destination nodes according to a network topology, determine a first BR and a second BR on the preferred path, and send a routing control message to a specified BR belonging to the first AS instructing the specified BR to use the first BR as a next hop for packet forwarding of the second BR.

A method for synchronizing topology information in a service function chain (SFC) network, where the SFC network includes at least one classifier (CF) and at least one service function forwarder (SFF). The method includes that a first network element in the at least two routing network elements establishes a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) connection to at least one second network element other than the first network element in the at least two routing network elements, where the first network element is any one of the at least two routing network elements, and the first network element sends a first BGP update message to the at least one second network element, where the first BGP update message includes topology information of the first network element such that the at least one second network element obtains the topology information of the first network element.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed that enable information about devices connected behind a gateway, such as a home gateway, to be made available to and used by other entities, such as servers and routers, on a communications network.

A method comprises, at a first router configured to perform Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) for forwarding of multicast packets in a network, storing configuration information that indicates that the first router belongs to multiple subdomains of a BIER domain, and is able to forward the multicast packets for a virtual private network on the multiple subdomains. The method further comprises, during an auto-discovery procedure, generating an auto-discovery message to include an auto-discovery route and route attributes that indicate the multiple subdomains, and sending the auto-discovery message to a second router of the virtual private network the network.

In one embodiment, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is implemented using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) underlay network and SRv6-enhanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling. A particular route associated with a particular Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) Segment Identifier (SID) is advertised in a particular route advertisement message of a routing protocol (e.g., BGP). The SID includes encoding representing a particular Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) Layer 2 (L2) flooding Segment Routing end function of the particular router and a particular Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI), with the particular SID including a routable prefix to the particular router. The particular router receives a particular packet including the particular SID; and in response, the particular router performs the particular EVPN end function on the particular packet.

Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage inter-regional connectivity for direct network peerings. A system may include a connectivity coordinator, a first resource collection in a first geographical zone and a second resource collection in a second geographical zone. The coordinator implements a programmatic interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request via the interface to establish a logically isolated network path to the second resource collection on behalf of a client that has a dedicated physical link set up to connect to the first resource collection. In response to the request, the coordinator performs one or more configuration operations to enable traffic to flow from the client's network to the second resource collection over a logically isolated network path using the dedicated physical link.

In one embodiment, an autonomous system border router (ASBR) advertises a same forwarding label for received advertised routes of a merging context that were advertised with a same forwarding label for the ASBR to use when sending corresponding packets. An ASBR receives via a routing protocol from a particular router in the same autonomous system, a plurality of same-labeled received routes advertised with a same first forwarding label within a merging context. In response to each of the plurality of same-labeled received routes having the same first forwarding label to use to forward packets to the particular router and being in the same merging context, the ASBR determines a merged forwarding label and advertises to a peer ASBR in another autonomous system (AS) each of the plurality of same-labeled received routes with the merged forwarding label for the peer ASBR to use to forward packets to the ASBR.