MAC ADDRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MAC ADDRESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely provide a MAC address to a network interface device with security. ;SOLUTION: A MAC address database server receiving a supply request of MAC address information from a network interface device reads a MAC address from a MAC address file (S12), transmits it to the network interface device (S13), and the network interface device writes it in its built-in memory (S3). The MAC address database server reads all remaining MAC addresses from the MAC address file except the MAC address that has been read and writes them to a tentative MAC address file (S15). Then the MAC address that has been read by the network interface device is deleted from the MAC address file.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2000,JPO