Packet forwarding device and control circuit thereof

A packet forwarding device includes a storage that stores a path selection table in which link numbers of a Work path and a Protection path for each flow number of a transfer packet, a flag that indicates whether the link is made up of a plurality of physical lines, a link aggregation number that identifies an aggregation of the plurality of physical lines, and destination information are set in association with one another, a link status table, a node status table, and an LAG status table, and a path selection processor that selects a path that outputs the packet on the basis of the information.