NETWORK VERSION UPGRADE METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

The present invention relates to the field of network communications. Provided are a network version upgrade method and apparatus, which solve the problems that a conventional upgrade method consumes lots of labor and software upgrade may affect a service in operation and meanwhile affect customer experience. The method is applied to a network device and the method comprises: a network device receives a version upgrade command; the network device acquires a version upgrade file from a version server according to the version upgrade command; the network device performs version upgrade according to the version upgrade file after acquiring the version upgrade file; and after the network device completes upgrade, the network device sends a first version update request to a neighboring network device in the same networking, so that the neighboring network device performs version upgrade according to the first version update request, the first version update request comprising related information of the version upgrade file required for version update.