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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2014
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Shigeeda, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An IP address distribution device sequentially transmits, to a terminal device on receiving an IP address request signal from the terminal device, IP address distribution signals including respective distribution IP addresses that are IP addresses selected one by one from among all unused IP addresses in a network. For the received IP address distribution signals, the switch device is subjected to setting to determine passage or blockage of the IP address distribution signal for each port in accordance with contents of all or a part of the distribution IP address included in the IP address distribution signal.