Patent ID: 9225667
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication system, comprising: a plurality of first switch devices; and a second switch device including a plurality of first ports that are to serve as connection sources of communication lines extending to the plurality of first switch devices and configured to set a link aggregation for the plurality of first ports, wherein the second switch device includes a switch table indicating a correspondence relationship between each of addresses of the plurality of first switch devices and a corresponding one of the plurality of first ports, an address table indicating a correspondence relationship between each of a plurality of ports thereof including the plurality of first ports and a corresponding one of addresses of terminals that exist at ends of the plurality of ports, and a link table indicating for which port the link aggregation is set; a destination determination section that detects, when the second switch device receives a frame, a destination address in the frame and obtains a port that is to serve as a destination corresponding to the destination address from the address table, a link aggregation control section that refers to the link table to select, if the link aggregation is set for the port that is to serve as the destination, a single port as a transfer port from the plurality of ports for which the link aggregation is set, on a basis of a predetermined rule, and to select, if the link aggregation is not set for the port that is to serve as the destination, the port that is to serve as the address as the transfer port; a transfer execution section that refers to the switch table to transfer, if the destination address in the frame is one of the addresses in the switch table, a port corresponding to the one of the addresses as the transfer port to transfer the frame from the port, and to transfer, if the destination address in the frame is not one of the addresses in the switch table, the frame from the transfer port selected in the link aggregation control section; and wherein, if the destination address is one of the addresses in the switch table, a port, among the plurality of first ports, which corresponds to the one of the addresses, on a basis of the switch table, to transfer the frame from the determined port.