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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hirokazu Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Yoji Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4675 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 41/085 (2013.01); H04L 49/25 (2013.01);
Abstract
A switch apparatus includes: a plurality of ports; a VLAN setting management unit storing entries, in each of which VLAN information and at least one of the plurality of ports are associated with each other, and adding or updating, if an entry corresponding to a combination of VLAN information included in a packet received from a port and the reception port of the packet is not stored, a corresponding entry for the received packet; and a functional unit notifying a predetermined control apparatus of an added or updated content of the entry.