Using Interswitch Protocols; In This Chapter - Alcatel OmniSwitch 6624 Network Configuration Manual

Alcatel Interswitch Protocols (AIP) are used to discover adjacent switches and retain mobile port informa-
tion across switches. The following protocols are supported:
Alcatel Mapping Adjacency Protocol (AMAP), which is used to discover the topology of
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OmniSwitches and OmniSwitch/Routers (Omni S/R). See
Group Mobility Advertisement Protocol (GMAP), which is used to retain learned mobile port and
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protocol information. See
These protocols are independent of each other and perform separate functions. Each protocol is described
in detail in separate sections of this chapter.

In This Chapter

This chapter describes the AMAP and GMAP protocols and how to configure them through the Command
Line Interface (CLI). CLI commands are used in the configuration examples; for more details about the
syntax of commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.
Configuration procedures described in this chapter include:
Activating AMAP on
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Configuring the AMAP discovery timeout interval on
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Configuring the AMAP common timeout interval on
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Activating GMAP on
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Configuring the GMAP gaptime interval on
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Configuring the GMAP updatetime interval on
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Configuring the GMAP holdtime interval on
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For information about statically and dynamically assigning switch ports to VLANs, see
"Assigning Ports to VLANs."
For information about defining VLAN rules that allow dynamic assignment of mobile ports to a VLAN,
see Chapter 7, "Defining VLAN Rules."
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