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OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Guide April 2005 page 9-1
9 Using Interswitch
Protocols
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
OmniSwitches and OmniSwitch/Routers (Omni S/R). See “AMAP Overview” on page 9-3.
• Group Mobility Advertisement Protocol (GMAP), which is used to retain learned mobile port and
protocol information. See “GMAP Overview” on page 9-9.
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 page 9-5.
• Configuring the AMAP discovery timeout interval on page 9-5.
• Configuring the AMAP common timeout interval on page 9-6.
• Activating GMAP on page 9-9.
• Configuring the GMAP gaptime interval on page 9-10.
• Configuring the GMAP updatetime interval on page 9-10.
• Configuring the GMAP holdtime interval on page 9-11.
For information about statically and dynamically assigning switch ports to VLANs, see Chapter 7,
“Assigning Ports to VLANs.”
For information about defining VLAN rules that allow dynamic assignment of mobile ports to a VLAN,
see Chapter 8, “Defining VLAN Rules.”