BRIDGING DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR LIMITING THE NUMBER OF VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORKS CREATED BY GVRP AT DEVICE AND PORT LEVEL

摘要

A Layer 2 device configured for providing at least one of bridging and switching functionality in a local area network comprising computer readable instructions for providing GVRP functionality and computer-readable instructions for limiting the number of dynamic VLANs that the GVRP functionality creates on a Layer 2 device of a local area network and on all ports of a data plane card of the Layer 2 device.