GVRP

Per-Port Options for Handling GVRP “Unknown VLANs”

Table 3-1. Options for Handling “Unknown VLAN” Advertisements:

UnknownVLAN

Operation

Mode

 

 

 

Learn

Enables the port to become a member of any unknown VLAN for which it

(the Default)

receives an advertisement. Allows the port to advertise other VLANs that

 

have at least one other port on the same switch as a member.

Block

Prevents the port from joining any new dynamic VLANs for which it receives

 

an advertisement.

 

Allows the port to advertise other VLANs that have at least one other port

 

as a member.

Disable

Causes the port to ignore and drop all GVRP advertisements it receives and

 

also prevents the port from sending any GVRP advertisements.

The CLI show gvrp command and the menu interface VLAN Support screen show a switch’s current GVRP configuration, including the Unknown VLAN settings.

ProCurve (config)# show gvrp

 

 

 

GVRP support

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maximum VLANs to support [8] : 8

 

 

 

 

GVRP Enabled

Primary VLAN : DEFAULT_VLAN

 

GVRP

Enabled [No] : Yes

 

 

 

 

(Required for Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VLAN operation.)

Port

Type

Unknown VLAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

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+ ------------

 

 

 

D1

1000X

Block

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D2

1000X

Block

 

 

 

 

 

D3

1000X

Disable

 

 

Unknown VLAN Settings

 

D4

1000X

Disable

 

 

Default: Learn

 

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X2

 

Learn

 

 

 

 

 

C1

10GbE-CX4 Learn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 3-3. Example of GVRP Unknown VLAN Settings

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