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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1998
Shinya Kano, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Chugo, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Sawada, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasushi Kurokawa, Fukuoka, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A transmission equipment decides in which, when a frame is received from each of networks, an output physical port corresponding to an output logical port decided by a path deciding section is decided by an output physical port deciding section, a transmitting frame is outputted to the output physical port, and when following received frames are successively transmitted, an output physical port number to which a transmitting frame is outputted by a port number increment section is incremented each time a frame is transmitted, and a destination to which a transmitting frame is outputted is switched among output physical ports.