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Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP)
Table 114 displays the individual Brocade devices and the Multiple MAC Registration Protocol
(MMRP) features they support.
Overview
Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP) provides a mechanism for end-stations and bridges to
dynamically register or declare group membership or individual MAC addresses to bridges attached
in the same LAN. Any given declaration is propagated to all application participants, and registered
in each bridge on those ports that are closest to the source or sources of the declaration within the
active topology. Registration of group membership information makes bridges aware that frames
destined for the group MAC address concerned should only be forwarded in the direction of the
registered members of the group. Therefore, forwarding of frames destined for the address
associated with that group occurs only on ports on which such membership registration has been
received.
MMRP networks
MMRP on NetIron provides the ability for flood containment for multi-point services in a PBB
network.
Limitations
MMRP is not supported on untagged ports.
TABLE 114 Supported Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP) features
Features
supported Brocade
NetIron XMR Brocade
MLX Series Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
BASE
package Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
ME_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
L3_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Base
package Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Advanced
Services
package
Multiple MAC
Registration
Protocol
(MMRP) Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Multiple VLAN
Registration
Protocol
(MVRP) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes