Station Device, Message Transfer Method, and Program Storage Medium Storing Program Thereof

摘要

An Ethernet frame nester nests Ethernet frames addressed to a plurality of remote station devices affiliated with a shared station device on the basis of the correspondence relation between a MAC address of the station device and MAC addresses of the remote station devices stored in a table and the transmission destination addresses of the Ethernet frames. The Ethernet frame nester then converts them into an RPR frame. When receiving an RPR frame addressed to the own station device, an Ethernet frame extractor extracts Ethernet frames from the RPR frame and transmits each Ethernet frame to the addressed remote station devices.