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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2000
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A transfer destination determining apparatus and method performing a load distribution in a network, where a plurality of transfer destination subjects are present as a transfer destination of a datagram, while the same collected flows are transferred to the same transfer destinations, the transfer destinations are allocated with respect to each of the collected flows. This apparatus has an extracting part extracting address and flow discrimination information, in the IP datagram; route solving part determining a transfer path based on the address information. When the determined path is a single path, the transfer destination is uniquely determined and the path is outputted to a post-staged apparatus, whereas when the path is a multi-path having a plurality of transfer destination subjects a multi-path number is outputted to a flow managing means which determines a transfer path corresponding, to a collected flow based on the received flow discrimination information and the multi-path number.