TRANSMISSION CONTROL SYSTEM USING LINK AGGREGATION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently utilize a band by preventing overflow of a port, without using a large-scale look-up table or a large-capacity transmission queue, in transmission which uses link aggregation. SOLUTION: The distributor 212 of a transmission device 201 unitizes a plurality variable length frames per predetermined size and allocates them to each of a plurality of ports per unit and transmits them. A receiver 202 accumulates received frames in each port, and a collector 227 collects frames per unit from each port. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI