Brocade TurboIron 24X Series Configuration Guide - Manual (Page 323)

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Metro Ring Protocol (MRP)
FIGURE 16 A MRP ring under normal operation (A) and after detection of a failure in the ring (B)
Master VLANs and customer VLANs
All the ring ports must be in the same VLAN. Placing the ring ports in the same VLAN provides
Layer 2 connectivity for a given customer across the ring.
Figure 17 shows an example.
Switch E
Switch D
Switch B Switch B Switch E
Switch C Switch C Switch D
Master Master Forwarding Blocked
RHP packet
direction
Alarm RHP
packet
Forwarding
Blocked
(a) (b)