Flow regulation method and device

The invention provides a flow regulation method and device, and the method comprises the steps that upstream equipment receives a protocol message transmitted by first downstream equipment, and the protocol message comprises interface information; and under the condition that the equivalent forwarding path exists, the upstream device adjusts the flow forwarded to the first downstream device to a second downstream device, and the second downstream device is a corresponding next-hop device in the equivalent forwarding path. According to the method and the device, the problem of flow discarding of the downstream node under the condition of insufficient performance after load balancing in the prior art is solved. 本发明提供了一种流量调节方法及装置，其中流量调节方法包括：上游设备接收第一下游设备发送的协议报文，该协议报文包括接口信息；在存在等价转发路径的情况下，该上游设备将转发给该第一下游设备的流量调整到第二下游设备上，其中该第二下游设备为等价转发路径中对应的下一跳设备。通过本发明，解决了相关技术中经过负载均衡后下游节点在性能不足的情况下出现流量丢弃的问题。