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This draft is a work item of the General Switch Management Protocol Working Group of
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Title : General Switch Management Protocol V3
Author(s) : A. Doria, F. Hellstrand, K. Sundell, T. Worster
Filename : draft-ietf-gsmp-08.txt
Pages : 141
Date : 14-Nov-00
The General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP), is a general
purpose protocol to control a label switch. GSMP allows a
controller to establish and release connections across the switch;
add and delete leaves on a multicast connection; manage switch
ports; request configuration information; request and delete
reservation of switch resources; and request statistics. It also
allows the switch to inform the controller of asynchronous events
such as a link going down. The GSMP protocol is asymmetric, the
controller being the master and the switch being the slave.
Multiple switches may be controlled by a single controller using
multiple instantiations of the protocol over separate control
connections. Also a switch may be controlled by more than one
controller by using the technique of partitioning.
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