DVS Series Managed Industrial Ethernet Switches User’s Manual
3.4.5 GVRP Configuration
The GARP (Generic Attribute Registration Protocol) VLAN Registration Protocol defines a GARP
application that provides the 802.1Q-compliant VLAN pruning and dynamic VLAN creation on
802.1Q trunk ports. With GVRP, the switch can exchange VLAN configuration information with other
GVRP switches, prune unnecessary broadcast and unknown unicast traffic, and dynamically create
and manage VLANs on switches connected through 802.1Q trunk ports.
GVRP
Conf
iguration
Description Factory Default
GVRP Mode
Specify whether the GVRP mode is enabled.
Disable: The GVRP mode is disabled.
Enable: The GVRP mode is enabled.
Enable
GVRP Port Configuration
Description Factory Default
Interface
This field displays the interface number.
interface number
Port GVRP Mode
Specify whether the GVRP mode is enabled on the interface. Enable
3.5 Multicast Filtering
Multicast IP traffic is traffic that is assigned to a host group. Host groups are identified by class D IP
addresses, which range from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255. A multicast IP packet only sends by one
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