5-2 
Figure 5-1 Formats of different types of Ethernet OAMPDUs 
 
 
The fields in an OAMPDU are described as follows: 
Table 5-1 Description of the fields in an OAMPDU 
Field  Description 
Dest addr 
Destination MAC address of the Ethernet OAMPDU. 
It is a slow protocol multicast address 0180c2000002. As slow 
protocol packet cannot be forwarded by bridges, Ethernet 
OAMPDUs cannot be forwarded.   
Source addr 
Source MAC address of the Ethernet OAMPDU. 
It is the bridge MAC address of the sending side and is a unicast 
MAC address. 
Type 
Type of the encapsulated protocol in the Ethernet OAMPDU. 
The value is 0x8809. 
Subtype 
The specific protocol being encapsulated in the Ethernet 
OAMPDU. 
The value is 0x03. 
Flags  Status information of an Ethernet OAM entity. 
Code  Type of the Ethernet OAMPDU 
 
 
Throughout this document, a port with Ethernet OAM enabled is called an Ethernet OAM entity or an 
OAM entity.   
 
Table 5-2 shows the function of the three types of OAMPDUs.