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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1996
Shuichi Saito, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a router device of the present invention, the routing controller refers to the routing address table to determine whether the received frame is to be routed (whether the frame passes through two or more router devices, for example). The multiplication controller multiplies the frame selected as the subject of routing and has the path controller set paths between router devices for transmission of the multiplied frames. The frame for which a path is set is transmitted with the destination address of the router device as the other party of communication. When a multiplied frame is received, the multiplication controller extracts an ordinary frame from the multiplied frame and sends it to the device indicated by the original destination address.