Transmission device and transmission method

Abstract

A transmission device includes a plurality of ports, a first conversion circuit that converts a frame that is input to any one of the plurality of ports and does not include a destination address of a network layer into a packet including the destination address of the network layer, a specification circuit that specifies a port corresponding to the destination address of the network layer of the packet that is converted by the first conversion circuit among the plurality of ports, a second conversion circuit that converts the packet into the frame that does not include the destination address of the network layer, and an output control circuit that causes the frame that is converted by the second conversion circuit to be output from the port that is specified by the specification circuit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.