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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masaharu Morimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/935 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/413 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 12/413 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 43/026 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 49/3009 (2013.01);
Abstract
A switch apparatus includes a storage storing a table, the table including rules and actions corresponding to the rules, and a controller including a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive the rules and the actions from a control apparatus, identify, based on the rules, a received packet, duplicate a part of a header of the identified packet as an additional header when the identified packet includes a target of encapsulation, encapsulate the identified packet by the additional header, and process, based on the actions, the identified packet.