An example of 
In addition, it illustrates that 489 packets each having a transmission source address=IP#2 (the flow B), a protocol type=a user datagram protocol (UDP), a port number=32, and a destination address=IP#4 are discarded in the measurement time period.
Here, if it is assumed that a threshold value of the number of discarded packets is “1000”, the number of discarded packets of the flow A exceeds the threshold value in the example of 
The FWC 7 may set, for the transmission source FW #1 of the flow A, a flow entry (may be conveniently called a “discarding entry” or a “FW entry”) for discarding packets of the flow A in which the number of discarded packets thereof exceeds the threshold value.