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Figure 1
Formats of different types of Ethernet OAMPDUs
Table 4
Description of the fields in an OAMPDU
Field Description
Dest addr
Destination MAC address of the Ethernet OAMPDU
It is a slow protocol multicast address 0180c2000002. As slow protocol
packet cannot be forwarded by bridges, Ethernet OAMPDUs cannot be
forwarded.
Source addr
Source MAC address of the Ethernet OAMPDU
It is the bridge MAC address of the sending side and is a unicast MAC
address.
Type
Type of the encapsulated protocol in the Ethernet OAMPDU
The value is 0x8809.
Subtype
The specific protocol being encapsulated in the Ethernet OAMPDU
The value is 0x03.
Flags
Status information of an Ethernet OAM entity
Code
Type of the Ethernet OAMPDU
NOTE:
Throughout this document, a port with Ethernet OAM enabled is an Ethernet OAM entity or an OAM
entity.
Table 5
Functions of different types of OAMPDUs
OAMPDU type
Function
Information OAMPDU
Used for transmitting state information of an Ethernet OAM entity—including the
information about the local device and remote devices, and customized
information—to the remote Ethernet OAM entity and maintaining OAM connections
Event Notification
OAMPDU
Used by link monitoring to notify the remote OAM entity when it detects problems on
the link in between
Loopback Control
OAMPDU
Used for remote loopback control. By inserting the information used to
enable/disable loopback to a loopback control OAMPDU, you can enable/disable
loopback on a remote OAM entity.