As already described, the FWC 7 may set the information of the discarding entry in, for example, an entry setting request message and may address, to the FW #x serving as a target, and transmit the entry setting request message.
In the examples of 
Therefore, the FWC 7 identifies, as a discarding entry setting target, the FW #1 corresponding to the transmission source sub-network #1 including the transmission source address=“IP#1”. The identification of the transmission source FW #1 may be performed based on, for example, the FW configuration information 741 described in 
In addition, the FWC 7 addresses, to the identified transmission source FW #1, and transmits the entry setting request message including the information of the discarding entry received from the reception FW #4 of the flow A.
If the relevant entry setting request message is received by the transmission source FW #1 and the discarding entry is registered in the entry table 54 in the FW #1, packets of the flow A are discarded by the FW #1 after that.
(Examples of Totalization and Analysis Processing in FW)