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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided route control with excellent flexibility even in a large-scale multicast transfer system. A multicast transfer system transfers a multicast packet arriving at a plurality of destinations between multicast communication devices, and a packet transfer processing unitof the multicast communication devicetransfers, when an interface of a multicast communication deviceadjacent to itself is specified as a transfer destination of a received multicast packet, the multicast packet to the specified interface, and transfers, when the interface of the multicast communication deviceadjacent to itself is not specified as the transfer destination of the received multicast packet, the multicast packet to an interface to a multicast communication devicespecified as the destination.