The active network is a new networking approach to allow new protocols to be developed easily by solving the limitation of the existing protocol development procedure and the long protocol standardization process. So far many research institutes and universities have proposed active node architectures and active packet formats, but still there are some problems needed to be solved. One of them is the active packet format and the routing approach which consider the requirements of various active applications. Therefore, in this paper, we figure cut the requirements of various active applications and design four types of active packet formats that reflect these requirements and propose routing schemes appropriate for these characteristics. Also we propose an active node architecture which reflect these requirements.