摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a client connecting newly to a network to use a connected device equally by other clients by obtaining connection device information from other connection device being a component of the network. SOLUTION: A client 10 is provided with a network interface 11 that controls input/output of data to/from a server via a network 1, an address acquisition means 12 that returns one of IP addresses reserved by a server for a dynamic host configuration protocol DHCP with respect to an address request packet broadcast to the network 1 and sets automatically it as an address of the client 10, and with an information acquisition means 13 that acquires all connection device information used by the network 1.</p> |