Patent ID: 9590905
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A control apparatus, comprising: a control information generation unit generating control information to be set in a communication apparatus(es) that processes received packets in accordance with the control information; a communication apparatus control unit setting the generated control information in the communication apparatus(es); an address information storage unit storing information about addresses of nodes on a network; and a packet analysis unit acquiring the information about addresses of nodes from received packets and registering the information in the address information storage unit, wherein, when the communication apparatus(es) receives a certain packet, the control apparatus sets packet-generation control information in the communication apparatus(es), the packet-generation control information defining a processing content(s) for causing the communication apparatus(es) to generate a packet for the certain packet and to transmit the packet to a specified destination, and wherein the control information generation unit generates the packet-generation control information based on the information about addresses of nodes that the address information storage unit stores, wherein the information about addresses of nodes has been acquired from the received packets.