| abstract |
There is provided with an access management apparatus which connects a communication network to a local area network and which manages access from the communication network to the local area network, the access management apparatus including: a packet receiver which receives a packet according to TCP or UDP from the communication network; a database storage unit which stores a database having a port number of the TCP or UDP in association with a MAC address; a MAC address detector which detects a MAC address associated with a destination port number in the packet received by the packet receiver, from the database; a start-up request packet generator which generates a start-up request packet to start up a terminal device having the detected MAC address on the local area network; and an output unit which outputs the generated start-up request packet to the local area network. |