Enabling and disabling GVRP

You can enable and disable GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) on your Shared Ethernet Adapters to control dynamic registration of VLANs over networks.

With Virtual I/O Server version 1.4, Shared Ethernet Adapters support GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) which is based on GARP (Generic Attribute Registration Protocol). GVRP allows for the dynamic registration of VLANs over networks.

By default, GVRP is disabled on Shared Ethernet Adapters.

Before you start, create and configure the Shared Ethernet Adapter. For instructions, see Creating a virtual Ethernet adapter using HMC version 7.

To enable or disable GVRP, run the following command:

chdev -dev Name -attr gvrp=yes/no

Where:

Name is the name of the Shared Ethernet Adapter.
yes/no defines whether GVRP is enabled or disabled. Type yes to enable GVRP and type no to disable GVRP.