COMPUTER SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, AND NETWORK ACCESS POLICY CONTROL METHOD

摘要

A computer system according to the present invention comprises: a controller; and a switch which carries out a relay operation on a received packet which conforms to a flow entry which is set by the controller, said relay operation being regulated with the flow entry. The switch transmits a received packet which does not conform to the flow entry which is set by the switch to the controller. The controller queries authentication information which is included in the received packet and authenticates the received packet. From among the header information of the received packet which is determined to be valid, the controller sets the switch to the flow entry which regulated the relay operation for the packet which includes information which identifies the transmission source of the received packet. Network access policy control in a computer system of an open flow protocol environment is thus made easy.