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GVRP C
ONFIGURATION
Introduction to GARP
and GVRP
Introduction to GARP
GARP (generic attribute registration protocol) offers a mechanism that is used by
the members in the same switching network to distribute, propagate and register
such information as VLAN and multicast addresses.
GARP dose not exist in a switch as an entity. A GARP participant is called GARP
application. The main GARP applications at present are GVRP and GMRP. GVRP is
described in the “GVRP Mechanism” on page 154 and GMRP will be described in
Multicast Configuration. When a GARP participant is on a port of the switch, each
port corresponds to a GARP participant.
Through GARP mechanism, the configuration information on one GARP member
will be advertised rapidly in the whole switching network. GARP member can be a
terminal workstation or bridge. A GARP member can notify other members to
register or remove its attribute information by sending declarations or withdrawal
declarations. It can also register or remove the attribute information of other
GARP members according to the received declarations/withdrawal declarations.
GARP members exchange information through sending messages. There mainly
are 3 types of GARP messages including Join, Leave, and LeaveAll.
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When a GARP participant wants to register its attribute information on other
switches, it will send Join message outward.
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When it wants to remove some attribute values from other switches, it will
send Leave message.
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LeaveAll timer will be started at the same time when each GARP participant is
enabled and LeaveAll message will be sent upon timeout.
Leave message and LeaveAll message cooperate to ensure the logout and the
re-registration of a message. Through exchanging messages, all the attribute
information to be registered can be propagated to all the switches in the same
switching network.
The destination MAC addresses of the packets of the GARP participants are
specific multicast MAC addresses. A GARP-supporting switch will classify the
packets received from the GARP participants and process them with
corresponding GARP applications (GVRP or GMRP).
GARP and GMRP are described in details in the IEEE 802.1p standard (which has
been added to the IEEE802.1D standard). 3Com Series Ethernet Switches fully
support the GARP compliant with the IEEE standards.
Summary of Contents for Switch 7757
Page 32: ...32 CHAPTER 1 CLI OVERVIEW...
Page 70: ...70 CHAPTER 5 LOGGING IN USING MODEM...
Page 76: ...76 CHAPTER 7 LOGGING IN THROUGH NMS...
Page 86: ...86 CHAPTER 9 CONFIGURATION FILE MANAGEMENT...
Page 120: ...120 CHAPTER 13 ISOLATE USER VLAN CONFIGURATION...
Page 126: ...126 CHAPTER 14 SUPER VLAN...
Page 136: ...136 CHAPTER 16 IP PERFORMANCE CONFIGURATION...
Page 152: ...152 CHAPTER 17 IPX CONFIGURATION...
Page 164: ...164 CHAPTER 19 QINQ CONFIGURATION...
Page 172: ...172 CHAPTER 21 SHARED VLAN CONFIGURATION...
Page 182: ...182 CHAPTER 22 PORT BASIC CONFIGURATION...
Page 198: ...198 CHAPTER 24 PORT ISOLATION CONFIGURATION...
Page 208: ...208 CHAPTER 25 PORT SECURITY CONFIGURATION...
Page 224: ...224 CHAPTER 27 DLDP CONFIGURATION...
Page 232: ...232 CHAPTER 28 MAC ADDRESS TABLE MANAGEMENT...
Page 240: ...240 CHAPTER 29 CENTRALIZED MAC ADDRESS AUTHENTICATION CONFIGURATION...
Page 280: ...280 CHAPTER 30 MSTP CONFIGURATION...
Page 348: ...348 CHAPTER 35 IS IS CONFIGURATION...
Page 408: ...408 CHAPTER 39 802 1X CONFIGURATION...
Page 412: ...412 CHAPTER 40 HABP CONFIGURATION...
Page 422: ...422 CHAPTER 41 MULTICAST OVERVIEW...
Page 426: ...426 CHAPTER 42 GMRP CONFIGURATION...
Page 480: ...480 CHAPTER 47 PIM CONFIGURATION...
Page 506: ...506 CHAPTER 48 MSDP CONFIGURATION...
Page 552: ...552 CHAPTER 51 TRAFFIC ACCOUNTING CONFIGURATION...
Page 570: ...570 CHAPTER 53 HA CONFIGURATION...
Page 582: ...582 CHAPTER 54 ARP CONFIGURATION SwitchA arp protective down recover interval 200...
Page 622: ...622 CHAPTER 58 DHCP RELAY AGENT CONFIGURATION...
Page 684: ...684 CHAPTER 61 QOS CONFIGURATION...
Page 718: ...718 CHAPTER 63 CLUSTER...
Page 738: ...738 CHAPTER 67 UDP HELPER CONFIGURATION...
Page 752: ...752 CHAPTER 69 RMON CONFIGURATION...
Page 772: ...772 CHAPTER 70 NTP CONFIGURATION...
Page 796: ...796 CHAPTER 72 FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT...
Page 802: ...802 CHAPTER 73 BIMS CONFIGURATION...
Page 814: ...814 CHAPTER 74 FTP AND TFTP CONFIGURATION...
Page 830: ...830 CHAPTER 75 INFORMATION CENTER...
Page 836: ...836 CHAPTER 76 DNS CONFIGURATION...
Page 852: ...852 CHAPTER 77 BOOTROM AND HOST SOFTWARE LOADING...
Page 858: ...858 CHAPTER 78 BASIC SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DEBUGGING...