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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1994
Filed:
May. 08, 1992
Yutaka Hirasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A computer system connected to a LAN is provided with a failure detecting section that detects a network failure by checking received packets from the LAN for a particular packet that may cause or is causing a network failure, a logical connecting/disconnecting section for logically disconnecting the computer system from the LAN, in response to the detection of the failure at the failure detecting section, and an informing section for displaying a failure occurrence message on an input/output section. Also provided is a connection instructing section that issues a connection instruction to the logical connecting/disconnecting section according to the request input at the input/output section.