PURPOSE: To provide a facsimile equipment coping with a LAN capable of coping with the fluctuation of the receivability of an equipment on the LAN.
CONSTITUTION: When a reception side facsimile equipment 101 receives a facsimile document, the reception side facsimile equipment is provided with a function for making inquiries relating to the receivability to the respective equipments 1051-1072 connected on the LAN and the function for dynamically updating a receivability table provided inside its own facsimile equipment 101. Also, the respective equipments connected to the LAN are provided with the function for asynchronously declaring the receivability of the present equipment on the LAN in real time for the inquiries of the receivability. Thus, the receivability of the reception side facsimile equipment is declared to a transmission side facsimile equipment as the receivability on the LAN in real time.
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