Patent ID: 9531567
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A network system comprising two or more communication apparatuses, the communication apparatuses being connected by a trunk link, each of the communication apparatuses for performing communication among cars of a train, including: two or more connection ports; and two or more VLANs set through VLAN numbers in each connection port, wherein each of the communication apparatuses determines, on the basis of only information for identifying a kind of communication given to a packet, whether a received packet is a specific kind of packet for disabling the VLAN settings, and, when receiving the specific kind of packet, each of the communication apparatuses disables the VLAN settings of each connection port with respect to the specific kind of packet, regards the set two or more VLANs as a same network, and transfers the packet to a desired destination apparatus.