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Figure 198: garp architecture – Allied Telesis AT-S62 User Manual

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Section V: VLANs

The architecture of GARP is shown in Figure 198.

Figure 198. GARP Architecture

The GARP Application component of the GARP Participant is responsible
for defining the semantics associated with the parameter values and
operators received in GARP PDUs, and for generating GARP PDUs for
transmission. The Application makes use of the GID component, and the
state machines associated with the operation of GID, in order to control its
protocol interactions.

An instance of GID consists of the set of state machines that define the
current registration and declaration state of all attribute values associated
with the GARP Participant. Separate state machines exist for the

Switch

GARP Application

GID

GARP PDU

s

GARP PDU

s

MAC Layer:
Port 1

LLC

GARP Participant

GARP Application

GID

GARP PDU

s

GARP PDU

s

MAC Layer:
Port 2

LLC

GARP Participant

GIP