摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network relay apparatus that reconciles enhanced security and convenience. <P>SOLUTION: The network relay apparatus includes: an authentication processing section for executing an authentication process of determining whether or not a user is authorized to connect to the network relay apparatus; an authentication information storage section for storing authentication information that is information used for checking the user's authority in the authentication process; a relay processing section for relaying frames for the user's terminal if the authentication process determines that the user is authorized to connect to the network relay apparatus; and an authentication information transmission section for transmitting the authentication information stored in the authentication information storage section to another network relay apparatus connected to the network relay apparatus in response to a predetermined trigger. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |