POLISHER AND POLISHING METHOD

摘要

A polisher in which the amount of fixed-length data sent into a network is controlled. The frame of the upper layer to which the fixed-length data belongs is recognized, the violation of the fixed-length data in the frame is judged, and the results of the judgment are held. The processing (for example, forced deletion, CLP tagging, or marking on the extended header) is applied to the succeeding fixed-length data in the same frame. Thereby the amount of fixed-length data sent out to a network is controlled and unnecessary traffic in the network does not flow, increasing the efficiency of the network.