Next, there will be described an example of a method in which, based on a flow entry set for one of the FWs 5 (conveniently expressed as a “reception FW 5”), which receives a flow, an administrator performs a setting on one of the FWs 5 (conveniently expressed as a “transmission source FW 5”), which corresponds to a transmitting side of the relevant flow.
It is assumed that, as illustrated in, for example, in 
In this case, since the transmission source address is unspecified, there is a possibility that packets of flows corresponding to the new entry are addressed, to the FW #4, and transmitted from all the sub-networks 3. Therefore, in response to the setting of the new entry for the reception FW #4, the FWC 7 may set and register, based on the new entry set in the reception FW #4, new entries for the other FWs (transmission source FWs) #1 to #3 each having the possibility of transmitting packets to the reception FW #4.