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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 05, 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 61/255 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 61/103 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/255 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication apparatus which terminates an L2 tunnel and an L3 tunnel includes a table storage unit which stores an ARP table where a broadcast MAC address is set as a destination MAC address linked to a destination IP address, and a transmission unit which acquires the broadcast MAC address as a destination MAC address corresponding to a destination IP address of an IP packet received via the L3 tunnel by referring to the ARP table and transmits a frame to which the broadcast MAC address is added as a destination MAC address, via the L2 tunnel.