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GVRP: GARP VLAN Registration Protocol

March 23rd, 2010 No comments

The  GARP (Generic Attribute Registration Protocol) VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) defines a GARP application that provides the 802.1Q-compliantVLAN pruning and dynamic VLAN creation on 802.1Q trunk ports. GVRP is an application defined in the IEEE 802.1P standard that allows for the control of 802.1Q VLANs. Read more…

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Comparing Ethernet II and 802.3

March 21st, 2010 No comments

There is IEEE802.3 ethernet and Ethernet II.  THe former has a “length” field in it (and also an 802.2 LLC and ‘SNAP’ header) and the latter (the one we use most commonly common on TCP/IP networks) replaces length field with a “type” field… Read more…

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