Elastic packet ring message forwarding method and equipment

The invention provides an elastic packet ring message forwarding method and equipment. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a cross-device link aggregation notification message through an elastic packet ring network; allocating an RPR cross-device link aggregation identifier to the RPR MAC address of the member node carried by the cross-device link aggregation notification message; receiving an Ethernet unicast message; when a lower ring node identifier corresponding to a destination MAC address of the received Ethernet unicast message is an RPR cross-device link aggregation identifier; performing hash calculation according to the Ethernet unicast message, and packaging the received Ethernet unicast message into an RPR unicast message by taking an RPR MAC address of a member node corresponding to a hash calculation result as a destination RPR MAC address and an RPR MAC address of the node as a source RPR MAC address; and sending the RPR unicast message through an output port of the shortest RPR