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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2014
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Kumagai, Tokyo, JP;
Kunio Odaka, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Miura, Tokyo, JP;
Kazutaka Shimoosako, Tokyo, JP;
FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a communication device and a communication system in which multi-hop communication is possible and management of communication routes is easy. In a distribution-system communication device, a port management meansis provided in a communication control unit, and each of ports provided in a port sectioncan be managed with the port management meansby IP addresses of adjacent stations connected to each of the ports. In a port management meansof a master station, correspondence information between port numbers of the port sectionof each of the slave stations and the IP addresses of adjacent stations of a connection destination is input from the port management meansof each of the slave stations, and connection states between the ports of each of the slave stations can be managed based on the correspondence information.