Network connecting apparatus

Details Network connecting apparatus Network connecting apparatus

1997-03-31

2000-10-03

Hsu, Alpus H.

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

370392, 370469, 709245, 34082507, H04L 1228, G06F 1300

Patent

active

061282944

ABSTRACT:
The network connecting apparatus implements an address resolution control method in conjunction with a switch on a network having a plurality of sub-nets within a single physical segment. The network connecting apparatus includes a switch 20 constituted by port control units 31 through 34, a switch control unit 35, a managing unit 36 and an address managing table 37. The switch 20 is supplemented innovatively with an address resolution control unit 47 and with an ARP request packet detecting unit 382 in a destination port discriminating unit 38 of the switch control unit 35.

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RFC 826, David C. Plummer, Nov. 1982, pp. 1-9.
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Douglas E. Comer, "Internatworking with TCP/IP vol. 1, Principles, Protocols, and Architecture", published by Prentice Hall, 1995.

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