Patent ID: 7243258
Filing Date: 2007-07-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communicating method for, in an internetwork system in which a first internetwork apparatus, a second internetwork apparatus and a management apparatus are coupled to a network, communicating between said first internetwork apparatus and said second internetwork apparatus through a transmission medium coupling between said first internetwork apparatus and said second internetwork apparatus, comprising the steps of: transmitting, in response to a first collection request for statistical information transmitted from said management apparatus, a second collection request for statistical information from said first internetwork apparatus to said second internetwork apparatus; receiving said second collection request for statistical information in said second internetwork apparatus; transmitting, in response to said second collection request for statistical information, first statistical information collected within said second internetwork apparatus from said second internetwork apparatus to said first internetwork apparatus; and receiving said first statistical information in said first internetwork apparatus.