Message processing method and apparatus

An optical network termination (ONT) receives an uplink message, the ONT includes a virtual local area network (VLAN) tagging operation configuration data managed entity (ME) with a VLAN tagging operation table, and each entry of the VLAN tagging operation table includes a group of operation value fields and a group of filter value fields including an outer layer VLAN priority filter value, an outer layer VID filter value, an inner layer VLAN priority filter value and an inner layer VID filter value. The ONT filters the received uplink message according to a characteristic value of the received uplink message by using at least one of the above values in a corresponding entry of the VLAN tagging operation table. The ONT performs a VLAN tagging operation for the filtered o uplink message.