摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To visualize a path in the case of distributing information from an information distributing source host to plural information distributing destination hosts within a display area which is limited with an AS or IP router as a unit, in an IP network such as the Internet. SOLUTION: A host to be measured is selected from the list of the information distributing destination hosts 2 (S2), IP router name (IP address) of a prescribed hop in the IP path from the information distributing source host 1 to the host 2 (S8), an AS name (AS number) is obtained based on it (S9), inter-AS connecting relation is found out from the obtained AS name (AS number) and its measurement order without superimposition (S10-S13), the arrangement of each AS is calculated to permit the whole AS paths to be stored within the display area of a prescribed display medium (S4) and the display of the whole AS paths is indicated to a display medium 4 (S5).</p> |