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3-9. 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. 3-30
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