Communication control method and system

• US 7,773,613 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2008
• Issued: 08/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: KDDI Corporation
• Original Assignee: KDDI Corporation
• Inventors: Hori, Kenji, Kouyama, Takeshi, Arai, Daisuke, Idoue, Akira, Endou, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu; Thong H
• Application Number:
  US12/333,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20090154480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: 370/338, 370/328, 370/313, 370/230, 370/395, 370/235, 370/401, 370/392, 370/390, 709/208
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/413 with random access, e.g. carrier-sense multiple-access with collision detection [CSMA-CD]

Abstract

A switch 1 having a tag VLAN function includes a plurality of physical ports P1, P2 . . . , and adds an ID tag unique to each physical port to the header of a packet received by the physical port and sends the packet, and on the other hand, refers to an ID tag attached to a packet received from a GW 2 and sends the packet to a physical port corresponding to the ID tag. The GW 2 searches for a server address corresponding to the ID tag attached to the packet received from the switch 1 and modifies a destination address of the packet into the server address. In addition, the GW 2 attaches an ID tag corresponding to a source address of the packet received from the shared server 3 to the received packet, and modifies the source address of the packet into a GW address.

Claims

1. A communication control system which controls packet exchange between a plurality of closed networks and physically one shared server, where server addresses unique to the respective closed networks are assigned to the shared server, comprising:

a switch having a plurality of physical ports to be connected to the respective closed networks and a gateway side port; and

a gateway connected between the switch and the shared server, wherein

the switch includes;

means for attaching an ID tag unique to each physical port to a packet input from each physical port and outputting it from the gateway side port; and

means for outputting the packet input from the gateway side port, from the physical port corresponding to the ID tag attached to the packet, and

the gateway includes;

a conversion table for managing correspondences between ID tags and server addresses;

means for detecting an ID tag attached to a packet addressed to the gateway received from the switch;

a first searching means for searching for a server address corresponding to the detected ID tag from the conversion table;

a first packet modifying means for modifying a destination address of the packet into the searched server address;

a second searching means for searching for an ID tag corresponding to a source address of a packet addressed to a closed network received from a shared server from the conversion table; and

a second packet modifying means for attaching the searched ID tag to the packet received from the shared server and modifying the source address into a gateway address.

2. The communication control system according to claim 1, wherein

to the gateway, gateway addresses unique to the respective closed networks are assigned,

the conversion table of the gateway manages correspondences among the ID tags, gateway addresses, and server addresses,

the second searching means searches for an ID tag and a gateway address corresponding to a source address of a packet received from the shared server from the conversion table, and

the second packet modifying means attaches the searched ID tag to the packet received from the shared server and modifies the source address thereof into the searched gateway address.

3. A communication control method in which a plurality of closed networks are connected to physically one shared server via a switch and a gateway, and server addresses unique to the respective closed networks are assigned to the shared server, comprising the steps of:

a host in a closed network transmitting a packet including a host address as a source address and a gateway address as a destination address, as a packet addressed to the shared server;

the switch attaching an ID tag unique to the physical port to a packet input into a physical port from a closed network and transferring the packet;

the gateway searching a server address corresponding to the ID tag attached to the packet received from the switch; and

the gateway modifying the destination address of the packet into the searched server address and transferring the packet;

the shared server transmitting a packet including the server address as a source address and the host address as a destination address;

the gateway searching an ID tag corresponding to the source address of the packet received from the shared server;

the gateway attaching the searched ID tag to the packet received from the shared server, modifying the source address of the packet into a gateway address, and transferring the packet; and

the switch transferring the packet received from the gateway from a physical port corresponding to the ID tag attached to the packet.