User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Title
- Notice
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About This Guide
- Introduction
- Local Management Requirements
- Accessing Local Management
- 3.1 Navigating Local Management Screens
- 3.2 Password Screen
- 3.3 Main Menu Screen
- 3.4 Module Selection Screen
- 3.5 Module Menu Screen
- 3.6 Overview of Security Methods
- 3.7 Security Menu Screen
- 3.8 Passwords Screen
- 3.9 Radius Configuration Screen
- 3.10 Name Services Configuration Screen
- 3.11 System Authentication Configuration Screen
- 3.12 EAP (Port) Configuration Screen
- 3.13 EAP Statistics Menu Screen
- 3.14 MAC Port Configuration Screen
- 3.15 MAC Supplicant Configuration Screen
- Chassis Menu Screens
- 4.1 Chassis Menu Screen
- 4.2 Chassis Configuration Screen
- 4.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
- 4.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
- 4.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
- 4.6 Chassis Environmental Information Screen
- 4.7 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen (Chassis)
- 4.8 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
- 4.9 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
- Module Configuration Menu Screens
- 5.1 Module Configuration Menu Screen
- 5.2 General Configuration Screen
- 5.2.1 Setting the IP Address
- 5.2.2 Setting the Subnet Mask
- 5.2.3 Setting the Default Gateway
- 5.2.4 Setting the TFTP Gateway IP Address
- 5.2.5 Setting the Module Name
- 5.2.6 Setting the Module Date
- 5.2.7 Setting the Module Time
- 5.2.8 Entering a New Screen Refresh Time
- 5.2.9 Setting the Screen Lockout Time
- 5.2.10 Configuring the COM Port
- 5.2.11 Clearing NVRAM
- 5.2.12 Enabling/Disabling IP Fragmentation
- 5.3 SNMP Configuration Menu Screen
- 5.4 SNMP Community Names Configuration Screen
- 5.5 SNMP Traps Configuration Screen
- 5.6 Access Control List Screen
- 5.7 System Resources Information Screen
- 5.8 FLASH Download Configuration Screen
- Port Configuration Menu Screens
- 6.1 Port Configuration Menu Screen
- 6.2 Ethernet Interface Configuration Screen
- 6.3 Ethernet Port Configuration Screen
- 6.4 HSIM/VHSIM Configuration Screen
- 6.5 Redirect Configuration Menu Screen
- 6.6 Port Redirect Configuration Screen
- 6.7 VLAN Redirect Configuration Screen
- 6.8 Link Aggregation Screen (802.3ad Main Menu Screen)
- 6.9 Broadcast Suppression Configuration Screen
- 802.1 Configuration Menu Screens
- 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screens
- 8.1 Summary of VLAN Local Management
- 8.2 802.1Q VLAN Configuration Menu Screen
- 8.3 Static VLAN Configuration Screen
- 8.4 Static VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
- 8.5 Current VLAN Configuration Screen
- 8.6 Current VLAN Egress Configuration Screen
- 8.7 VLAN Port Configuration Screen
- 8.8 VLAN Classification Configuration Screen
- 8.9 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
- 802.1p Configuration Menu Screens
- 9.1 802.1p Configuration Menu Screen
- 9.2 Port Priority Configuration Screen
- 9.3 Traffic Class Information Screen
- 9.4 Traffic Class Configuration Screen
- 9.5 Transmit Queues Configuration Screen
- 9.6 Priority Classification Configuration Screen
- 9.7 Protocol Port Configuration Screen
- 9.8 Rate Limiting Configuration Screen
- Layer 3 Extensions Menu Screens
- Module Statistics Menu Screens
- Network Tools Screens
- VLAN Operation and Network Applications
- 13.1 Defining VLANs
- 13.2 Types of VLANs
- 13.3 Benefits and Restrictions
- 13.4 VLAN Terms
- 13.5 VLAN Operation
- 13.6 Configuration Process
- 13.7 VLAN Switch Operation
- 13.8 VLAN Configuration
- 13.9 Summary of VLAN Local Management
- 13.10 Quick VLAN Walkthrough
- 13.11 Examples
- 13.12 Example 1, Single Switch Operation
- 13.13 Example 2, VLANs Across Multiple Switches
- 13.14 Example 3, Filtering Traffic According to a Layer 4 Classification Rule
- 13.15 Example 4, Securing Sensitive Information According to Subnet
- 13.16 Example 5, Using Dynamic Egress to Control Traffic
- 13.17 Example 6, Locking a MAC Address to a Port Using Classification Rules
- Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
- About IGMP
- Index

Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP) A-1
A
Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
(GARP)
This appendix describes the switch operation when its ports are operating under the Generic
Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP) application – GARP VLAN Registration Protocol
(GVRP).
A.1 OPERATION
The process of the forwarding decision and tagging frames is the same as for 802.1Q as described
in Chapter 13. However, the GVRP protocol frames will not have a tag even when transmitted out
a 1Q Trunk Port.
The purpose of GVRP is to dynamically create VLANs across a switched network. When a VLAN
is declared, the information is transmitted out GVRP configured ports on the switch in a GARP
formatted frame using the GVRP multicast MAC address. A switch that receives this frame,
examines the frame, and extracts the VLAN IDs. GVRP then creates the VLANs and adds the
receiving port to its tagged member list for the extracted VLAN IDs). The information is then
transmitted out the other GVRP configured ports of the switch. Figure A-1 shows an example of
how VLAN blue from end station A would be propagated across a switch network.
NOTE: There is a global setting for GVRP that is enabled by default. Access to these
settings is only available through a MIB.