AT-S63 Management Software Features Guide
Section VI: Virtual LANs
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Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP) Overview
The following is a technical overview of GARP. An understanding of GARP
may prove helpful when you use GVRP.
The purpose of the
Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
(GARP) is to
provide a generic framework whereby devices in a bridged LAN, for
example end stations and switches, can register and deregister
attribute
values, such as VLAN Identifiers, with each other. In doing so, the
attributes are propagated to devices in the bridged LAN, and these
devices form a “reachability” tree that is a subset of an active topology. For
a bridged LAN, the active topology is normally that created and maintained
by the Spanning Tree Protocol
(STP).
To use GARP, a GARP application must be defined. The Layer 2 switch
has one GARP application presently implemented, GVRP.
The GARP application specifies what the attribute represents.
GARP defines the architecture, rules of operation, state machines and
variables for the registration and deregistration of attribute values. By
itself, GARP is not directly used by devices in a bridged LAN. It is the
applications of GARP that perform meaningful actions. The use of GVRP
allows dynamic filter entries for VLAN membership to be distributed
among the forwarding databases of VLAN-active switches.
A GARP participant in a switch or an end station consists of a GARP
application component, and a
GARP Information Declaration
(GID)
component associated with each port of the switch. One such GARP
participant exists per port, per GARP application. The
GARP Information
Propagation
(GIP) component propagates information between GARP
participants for the same application in a switch. Protocol exchanges take
place between GARP participants by means of LLC Type 1 services, using
the group MAC address and PDU format defined for the GARP application
concerned.
Every instance of a GARP application includes a database to store the
values of the attributes. Within GARP, attributes are mapped to GID
indexes.
Summary of Contents for AT-S63
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Page 28: ...28 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 58: ...Chapter 1 Overview 58 ...
Page 76: ...Chapter 2 AT 9400Ts Stacks 76 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 96: ...Chapter 5 MAC Address Table 96 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 114: ...Chapter 8 Port Mirror 114 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 116: ...116 Section II Advanced Operations ...
Page 146: ...Chapter 12 Access Control Lists 146 Section II Advanced Operations ...
Page 176: ...Chapter 14 Quality of Service 176 Section II Advanced Operations ...
Page 196: ...196 Section III Snooping Protocols ...
Page 204: ...Chapter 18 Multicast Listener Discovery Snooping 204 Section III Snooping Protocols ...
Page 216: ...Chapter 20 Ethernet Protection Switching Ring Snooping 216 Section III Snooping Protocols ...
Page 218: ...218 Section IV SNMPv3 ...
Page 234: ...234 Section V Spanning Tree Protocols ...
Page 268: ...268 Section VI Virtual LANs ...
Page 306: ...Chapter 27 Protected Ports VLANs 306 Section VI Virtual LANs ...
Page 320: ...320 Section VII Internet Protocol Routing ...
Page 360: ...Chapter 30 BOOTP Relay Agent 360 Section VII Routing ...
Page 370: ...Chapter 31 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol 370 Section VII Routing ...
Page 372: ...372 Section VIII Port Security ...
Page 402: ...Chapter 33 802 1x Port based Network Access Control 402 Section VIII Port Security ...
Page 404: ...404 Section IX Management Security ...
Page 436: ...Chapter 36 PKI Certificates and SSL 436 Section IX Management Security ...
Page 454: ...Chapter 38 TACACS and RADIUS Protocols 454 Section IX Management Security ...
Page 462: ...Chapter 39 Management Access Control List 462 Section IX Management Security ...
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