ROUTING METHOD AND ROUTER OF PACKET INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF DESTINATION ADDRESSES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a routing method and a router of a packet including a plurality of destination addresses in which data can be delivered while being divided or compressed appropriately. SOLUTION: The routing method comprises steps of: receiving a data packet including a plurality of destination addresses through two routes of different upper limit size of data packet and then judging whether the address list of the received packet has been compressed or not; routing the data packet including a plurality of destination addresses; and outputting the data packet while dividing or compressing. The dividing/compressing step comprises steps of: judging whether the data packet subjected to routing can be transmitted as it is; dividing the data packet subjected to routing if it cannot be transmitted; and outputting the divided data packet. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI