Patent ID: 8208155

Claim:
A network apparatus configured to perform communication using an IP address comprising: an operation unit configured to receive a user's operation; and a setting unit configured to set the IP address in accordance with the user's operation received by the operation unit, wherein the operation unit comprises: a first input unit configured to input a value representing a numeral and/or an alphabetical character which composes the IP address; a second input unit configured to input a mark for separating a plurality of the values input by the first input unit into a plurality of fields in units of 16 bits; and a third input unit configured to input an abbreviation mark indicating that a specific value included in at least one of the plurality of fields is abbreviated, by a single user's operation, wherein the abbreviation mark abbreviates zeros and said mark of the at least one of the plurality of fields and the abbreviation mark is used only once in the IP address when there are multiple fields of zeros.