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34 Intel® Blade Server Ethernet Switch Module IXM5414E: Installation and User’s Guide:A Guide for Technically
GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (GMRP)
Networking devices use the GARP Multicast Registration Protocol to dynamically register (and de-
register) Group membership information with other networking devices attached to the same
segment and across all the bridged LAN devices that support Extended Filtering Services.
The operation of GMRP relies upon the services provided by the GARP. The information registered,
de-registered and disseminated via GMRP is in the following forms:
Group Membership Information
This indicates that there exists one or more GMRP participants which are members of a
particular Group, and carries the group MAC address(es) associated with this Group.
Registration of group membership information allows networking devices to be made aware
that frames destined for these group MAC address(es) should be forwarded in the direction
of registered members of the group. Forwarding of frames destined for the group MAC
address(es) occurs on ports on which such membership registration has been received.
Group Service Requirements Information
This indicates that one or more GMRP participants require Forward all Groups or Forward
Unregistered to be the default filtering behavior. Registration of group services requirement
information allows networking devices to be made aware that any of their ports that can
forward frames in the direction from which the group service requirement information has
been received should modify their default group behavior in accordance with the group
service requirement.
When the switch module receives GMRP PDUs it will update the multicast table with a new entry or
modify an existing entry with the new information. The switch module will forward multicast
packets through only those ports for which GMRP has created a group registration entry (for that
multicast address).
GMRP registrations are specific to a VLAN, which allows the Group filtering behavior for one
VLAN to be independent of the Group filtering behavior for other VLANs. The same ingress rules
are applied to GMRP PDUs as to other packets. Therefore:
GMRP frames with no VLAN classification (i.e., untagged or priority-tagged GMRP frames)
are discarded if the Acceptable Frame Types parameter for the Port is set to Admit Only VLAN-
tagged frames. Otherwise, they are classified according to the PVID (Port VLAN ID) for the
Port.
VLAN-tagged GMRP frames are classified according to the VID carried in the tag header.
If Ingress Filtering is enabled, and if the Port is not in the Member set for the GMRP frame's
VLAN classification, then the frame is discarded.
The VLAN classification thus associated with received GMRP PDUs establishes the VLAN context
for the received PDU, and identifies the GARP participant instance to which the PDU is directed.
GMRP PDUs transmitted by GMRP participants are VLAN-classified according to the VLAN
context associated with that participant. GMRP Participants in VLAN networking devices apply the
same egress rules that are defined for the transmission port. Therefore:
GMRP PDUs are transmitted through a given port only if the port is a member of the VLAN
concerned.
GMRP PDUs are transmitted as VLAN-tagged frames or untagged frames, in accordance with
the state of the Untagged Set for that port for the VLAN concerned. Where VLAN-tagged
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