| 摘要 |
The object of the present invention is to provide a system wherein it can be retrieved whether or not two of a plurality of nodes (transmission devices) disposed in a complicated communication network, which includes control signal transmission paths and main signal transmission paths in a mixed condition, are physically connected to each other by a main signal transmission path so that settings to be performed by an operator can be performed precisely. According to the present invention, a system for detecting a connection state between two nodes in a digital communication network wherein a large number of nodes each having an intrinsic address set thereto and each having one or more ports are connected to each other by a plurality of transmission paths by which frame type digital signal is transmitted and each of the nodes relays a digital signal which arrives at one of the ports thereof to another one of the ports is characterized in that a specific bit of the frame type digital signal is allocated as a bit for connection state retrieval, and each of the nodes inhibits relaying of the specific bit.
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