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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2007
Daisku Ogasahara, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Sakauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Daisku Ogasahara, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Sakauchi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network node including an FDB for registering a relationship between a destination MAC address and a port label, an input port table for registering a relationship between an input port and a port label, and a port label table for registering a relationship between a port label and an output port, at the reception of a frame, registers a relationship between a transmission source MAC address of a frame and a port label registered for an input port in the input port table at the FDB, at the time of transmission of a frame, transmits the frame to an output port registered at the port label table which port corresponds to a port label registered for the destination MAC address in the FDB and at the time of processing of flushing or updating the FDB unit, changes the contents of the input port table and the port label table.