CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SWITCH CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

摘要

The objective of the invention is to reduce the load of managing flow entries that are set in a switch in a centralized control type network. A control apparatus sets, in a first table included in a switch, a first entry used to filter packets received by the switch, and also sets, in a second table include in the switch, a second entry including a rule for processing one of the received packets that is selected by use of the first entry.