Patent attributes
The present invention discloses an address management method and apparatus, to help dynamically adjust an address resource and improve address resource utilization. The method includes: establishing a communication connection to a network device based on a specified routing protocol; receiving an address pool status message sent by the network device; determining, based on the address pool status message, whether an address pool of the network device is in an address insufficient state or an address abundant state; and sending a first routing message to the network device by using the communication connection if the address pool of the network device is in the address insufficient state; or sending a second routing message to the network device by using the communication connection if the address pool of the network device is in the address abundant state.
