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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 the
VLANs. The GVRP offers the function providing 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, GVRP state
machine maintain the contents of Dynamic VLAN Registration Entries for each VLAN and
propagate these information to other GVRP-aware devices to setup and update their knowledge
database, the set of VLANs associated with currently active members, and through which ports
these members can be reached.
In GVRP Configuration function folder, there are three functions supported, including
GVRP Config, GVRP Counter and GVRP Group explained below.
Fig. 3-42