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Figure 3-37: MAC Alias Page
MAC:
A six-byte long Ethernet hardware address and expressed in hex and separated by hyphens.
Alias:
Alias name for the MAC address.
Note:
If there are too many MAC addresses in the table, it is recommended that you
input the MAC address and alias name manually.
3.12 GVRP Configuration
GVRP is an application based on Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP) mainly used to
automatically and dynamically maintain the group membership information of VLANs. GVRP provides the
VLAN registration service through a GARP application. It makes use of GARP Information Declaration
(GID) to maintain the ports associated with their attribute database and GARP Information Propagation
(GIP) to communicate among switches and end stations. With GID information and GIP, the GVRP state
machine maintains the contents of Dynamic VLAN Registration Entries for each VLAN and propagates
this information to other GVRP-aware devices to setup and update their knowledge database including
the set of VLANs associated with currently active members, and through which ports these members can
be reached.
In the GVRP Configuration function folder, there are three functions supported, GVRP Config, GVRP
Counter and GVRP Group, which are explained in detail in the following sections.
3.12.1 Config
The Config page (Figure 3-38) is used to configure each port’s GVRP operation mode, as described
below.
