Patent ID: 8081580

Claim:
A network verification management apparatus controlling a testing apparatus which transmits and receives a test packet and verifying a network to which a relay apparatus relays a packet, the network verification management apparatus comprising: a condition acquiring unit to acquire verification conditions for verifying the network by user input and/or by communicating with the testing apparatus, wherein the verification conditions include a test target network address which is to be set in the test packet; a registering unit to register, in an address resolution table of the relay apparatus relaying the packet to the network in which the testing apparatus is disposed, an entry in which the test target network address contained in the verification conditions acquired by the condition acquiring unit is associated with a physical address of the testing apparatus; and a control unit to control the testing apparatus to transmit and receive a plurality of test packets to form a plurality of connections on the basis of the verification conditions acquired by the condition acquiring unit after the registering unit has registered the entry.