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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2020
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
when packets are received via any one of the plurality of inflow VRFs provided for respective route patterns, a chaining edge router () redirects the packets to a chain VRF corresponding to the inflow VRF. The chaining edge router () transfers the packets redirected to the chain VRF to respective functions via a communication path constructed using a VLAN in advance according to a route pattern corresponding to the chain VRF.