Message forwarding method and equipment

The invention provides a message forwarding method and equipment. The method comprises the following steps: determining to switch a forwarding path from an elastic packet ring network to an opposite-end escape node into an escape link; setting a local escape port connected with the escape link from a blocked state to a forwarding state; a member port of a member table item associated with a virtual aggregation port of the opposite-end escape elastic grouping ring node is modified from a virtual port allocated to the opposite-end escape node to a virtual port allocated to a local escape port; determining that an output port of an MAC address table entry matched with a destination MAC address of the Ethernet unicast message to be forwarded is a virtual aggregation port allocated to an opposite-end escape node; selecting a virtual port distributed to a local escape port in a member table item of the virtual aggregation port; and the Ethernet unicast message is sent through the local escape port. 本申请提供了一种报文转发方法及设