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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2010
Michio Kuramoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Kanta Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuyuki Mitsumori, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A routing apparatus couples to another routing apparatus using a trunk formed by a plurality of channels, and has a plurality of input and output cards to input and output frames. Each input and output card includes a management table registering a transmitting source address, destination information, and a trunk attribute indicating whether a channel used for a transmission has a trunk structure, a learning request part searching the management table using a transmitting source address within a frame that is transmitted via the channel, and generating and supplying learning request information having information that is obtained by searching the management table to another input and output card, if the channel used for the transmission has the trunk structure, and a registering part registering learning request information supplied thereto in the management table.