APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ADDRESSES OF NETWORK ELEMENTS

摘要

The present invention relates apparatus and method for managing addresses of network elements connected to a network. An IGD (Internet Gateway Device) of the present invention comprises a WAN device conducting gateway function of a home network to other network, and a LAN device that communicates with the WAN device and has address management information used for management of 16-byte-long IPv6 addresses to be assigned to the element. The address management information is set or read by a command received from a remote element on the network in which a control application is running.