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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takayoshi Hirasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a transfer apparatus, an internal routing layer Ldetects a destination address of internal routing information from an internal RIB DB, transfers the internal routing information to a transfer apparatus of the detected destination address, and stores the internal routing information or external routing information transferred from another transfer apparatus via internal ports Pand Pin an FIB DB. An external routing layer Lstores external routing information transferred from an agentin an external RIB DB, stores the stored external routing information in the FIB DBof the transfer apparatus to which the external routing layer Litself belongs, and transfers the external routing information to another transfer apparatus via the internal ports Pand Psuch that the external routing information is stored in the FIB DB