Patent ID: 9654420
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A relay device comprising: a plurality of line cards each having one or plural external ports; and a first card connected to each of the plurality of line cards, wherein an external port of one of the plurality of line cards and an external port of the other one of the plurality of line cards are set as member ports of a same Link Aggregation Group (LAG), when monitoring a continuity between the member ports of the LAG and an outside of the device, the first card generates a first monitoring frame and transmits the first monitoring frame to the line cards having the member ports of the LAG, any one of the line cards having the member ports of the LAG transmits the first monitoring frame received from the first card to the outside of the device from its own external port set as the member port of the LAG, and when the line cards having the member ports of the LAG receive a second monitoring frame from the outside of the device at their own external ports set as the member ports of the LAG, they transmit the received second monitoring frame to the first card, wherein the first card is a management card which manages the plurality of line cards, wherein the first monitoring frame and the second monitoring frame are Continuity Check Message (CCM) frames based on Ethernet OAM, wherein the management card adds a port identifier, which indicates any one external port in the member ports of the LAG, to the first monitoring frame and transmits the first monitoring frame, to which the port identifier has been added, to a line card corresponding to the port identifier, wherein the line card, which has received the first monitoring frame to which the port identifier has been added, transmits the first monitoring frame to the outside of the device from an external port indicated by the port identifier, and wherein the management card includes a LAG table which retains a correspondence relation between the LAG and the member ports of the LAG, and adds the port identifier to the first monitoring frame based on the LAG table.