Allied Telesis AT-S62 - Manual (Page 588)

Chapter 25: GARP VLAN Registration Protocol
588 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