CONNECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

A connection management apparatus includes an accepting section, a transmitting section, a connecting section, and a control section. The accepting section accepts an information transmission request from a requesting terminal that is a terminal requesting a wireless LAN connection. The transmitting section transmits, to the requesting terminal, connection information for establishing a wireless LAN connection in response to the information transmission request. The connecting section has a capability of establishing a wireless LAN connection with a predetermined upper limit number of terminals. In a case where the number of connecting terminals that are terminals connected via the wireless LAN connection reaches the upper limit number, the control section causes a connecting terminal among the connecting terminals to function as a tethering terminal and terminates the wireless LAN connection established by the connecting section, the tethering terminal being a terminal that provides a tethering connection using connection information the same as the connection information for establishing the wireless LAN connection with the connecting section by the connecting terminal.