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Users Manual of CS-6306R
Responding to the OAM discovery initialization process Yes Yes
Transmitting the Information OAM PDU packet Yes Yes
Permitting to transmit the Event Notification OAM PDU
packet
Yes Yes
Allowing to transmit the Variable Request OAM PDU
packet
Yes No
Allowing to transmit Variable Response OAM PDU packet Yes Yes
Allowing to transmit the Loopback Control OAM PDU
packet
Yes No
Responding to Loopback Control OAM PDU
Yesbut the peer
terminal must be in
active mode.
Yes
Allowing to transmit specified OAM PDU Yes Yes
After the Ethernet OAM connection is established, the OAM entities at two terminals maintain connection by
transmitting the Information OAM PDU packets. If the Information OAM PDU packet from the peer OAM entity
is not received in five seconds, the connection times out and a new OAM connection then requires to be
established.
33.1.1.3 Components of the OAM Packet
Figure 1 Components of the OAM packet
The following are the meanings of the fields of the OAM packet:
Destination address: means the destination MAC address of the Ethernet OAM packet.
Source address: Source MAC address of the Ethernet OAM packet
It is the MAC address of the transmitter terminal's port and also a unicast MAC address.
Length/Type: Always adopts the Type encoding. The protocol type of the Ethernet OAM packet is
0x8809.
Subtype: The subtype of the protocol for Ethernet OAM packets is 0x03.