[c-nsp] GARP on Cisco equipment

[Martin T]

Hi,

GARP stands for Generic Attribute Registration Protocol. GVRP(GARP
VLAN Registration Protocol) allows for the control of IEEE 802.1q
VLANs. As I understand GVRP provides dynamic creation and management
of VLANs, including pruning of unnecessary broadcasts and unicasts on
switches connected through 802.1q trunk ports. This sounds very
familiar to Cisco VTP. In addition, GARP standard specifies a GARP
Multicast Registration Protocol(GMRP), which allows bridges and
switches to register a multicast group membership. Latter sounds
similar to IGMP snooping.
Is GARP used/supported on Cisco equipment? If yes, has anyone used it
instead of Cisco alternatives?


regards,
Martin