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3-13 GVRP GVRP is an application based on Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP), mainly used to automatically and dynamically maintain the group membership information of the VLANs. The GVRP offers the function providing the VLAN registration service through a GARP application. It makes use of GARP Information Declaration (GID) to maintain the ports associated with their attribute database and GARP Information Propagation (GIP) to communicate among switches and end stations. With GID information and GIP, GVRP state machine maintain the contents of Dynamic VLAN Registration Entries for each VLAN and propagate these information to other GVRP-aware devices to setup and update their knowledge database, the set of VLANs associated with currently active members, and through which ports these members can be reached. 3-13.1 Configuration This page allows you to configure the basic GVRP Configuration settings for all switch ports.The settings relate to the currently selected unit, as reflected by the page header. Web Interface To configure GVRP Port Configuration in the web interface: 1. Click GVRP configure. 2. Specify GVRP Configuration Parameters.. 3. Click Apply. Figure 3-13.1: The GVRP Global Configuration 142