FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: information processing apparatus has a control unit for controlling a plurality of network addresses, an allocation unit for allocating a network address from network addresses controlled by the control unit, which is not allocated to another apparatus, in accordance with a request from the apparatus which has reconnected to a network, a storage unit for storing the network address of a search server for searching device information in the device information storage unit based on the search request and response to the search request through the found result, a first transmitting unit for transmitting to the reconnected apparatus a network address allocated by the allocation unit and a second transmitting unit for transmitting a network address allocated by the allocation unit to the search server based on the network address stored in the storage unit.
EFFECT: possibility of building a large-scale network by connecting multiple small-scale networks through a connecting device with possibility of searching for devices existing in different subnetworks.
19 cl, 29 dwg
