RE: [RPRWG] What is the purpose of sending sencond MAC address?

["Peter Jones" <PJones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walker,

 

Have a look at the presentation

 

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/17/documents/presentations/jul2003/pj_sec_addr_02.pdf

 

And see it this answers your questions.

 

In brief, the secondary addresses allow for supporting layer 3 resiliency protocols (e.g. VRRP) while retaining the RPR Spatial reuse.

 

Regards

Peter

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: zhang xiaolin [mailto:bit_walker@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:56 PM
To: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [RPRWG] What is the purpose of sending sencond MAC address?

Hi, everyone

What is the purpose of adding  sencond MAC address to topology database and how to use it? Can you give me a simple example?

Thank you very much.

 

Best Regards

 

Walker