COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND NETWORK SYSTEM

摘要

A communication apparatus for performing communication among cars of a train includes two or more connection ports, and two or more VLANs set through VLAN numbers in each connection port. When receiving a specific kind of packet for disabling the VLAN settings, the communication apparatus regards the set two or more VLANs as the same network with respect to the specific kind of packet and transfers the packet to a desired destination apparatus set in any one of the VLANs irrespective of the VLAN settings.