Table of Contents

1 Overview
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 Abbreviations
5 Conformance
6 Support of the MAC Service
7 Principles of Virtual Bridged Network operation
8 Principles of bridge operation
9 Tagged frame format
10 Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) and Multiple
   MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP)
11 VLAN topology management
12 Bridge management
13 Spanning Tree Protocols
14 Encoding of Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs)
15 Support of the MAC Service by PBNs
16 Principles of Provider Bridged Network (PBN) operation
17 Management Information Base (MIB)
18 Principles of Connectivity Fault Management operation
19 CFM entity operation
20 CFM protocols
21 Encoding of CFM PDUs
22 CFM in systems
23 MAC status propagation
24 Bridge performance
25 Support of the MAC Service by PBBNs
26 Principles of Provider Backbone Bridged Network (PBBN)
   operation
27 Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)
28 ISIS-SPB Link State Protocol
29 DDCFM operations and protocols
30 Principles of congestion notification
31 Congestion notification entity operation
32 Congestion notification protocol
33 Encoding of congestion notification PDUs
34 Forwarding and Queuing Enhancements for time-sensitive
   streams (FQTSS)
35 Stream Registration Protocol (SRP)
36 Priority-based Flow Control (PFC)
37 Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
38 Data Center Bridging eXchange Protocol (DCBX)
39 Multiple I-SID Registration Protocol (MIRP)
40 Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)
41 VSI discovery and configuration protocol (VDP)
42 S-Channel Discovery and Configuration Protocol (CDCP)
43 Edge Control Protocol (ECP)
44 Equal Cost Multiple Paths (ECMP)
Annex A (normative) - PICS proforma - Bridge implementations
Annex B (normative) - PICS proforma - Bridge implementations
        (End station implementations)
Annex C (normative) - DMN (Designated MSRP Node)
        Implementations
Annex D (normative) - IEEE 802.1 Organizationally Specific
        TLV
Annex E (normative) - Notational conventions used in state
        diagrams
Annex F (informative) - Shared and Independent VLAN Learning
        (SVL and IVL)
Annex G (informative) - MAC method-dependent aspects of VLAN
        support
Annex H (informative) - Interoperability considerations
Annex I (informative) - Priority and drop precedence
Annex J (informative) - CFM protocol design and use
Annex K (informative) - TPMR use cases
Annex L (informative) - Operation of the credit-based shaper
        algorithm
Annex M (normative) - Support for PFC in link layers without
        MAC Control
Annex N (informative) - Buffer requirements for PFC
Annex O (informative) - Preserving the integrity of FCS fields
        in MAC Bridges
Annex P (informative) - Frame duplication and misordering
Annex Q (informative) - Preemption and IEEE Std 802.1AE MAC
        Security
Annex R (informative) - Preemption and scheduled traffic
Annex S (informative)
Annex T (informative) - Cyclic queuing and forwarding
Annex U (informative) - Bibliography

Abstract

Describes Bridges that interconnect individual LANs, each supporting the IEEE 802 MAC Service using a different or identical media access control method, to provide Bridged Networks and VLANs.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
Pages
ISBN
Supersedes	IEEE 802.1QBF : 2011 IEEE 802.1AP : 2008 IEEE 802.1AD : 2005 IEEE 802.1QAZ : 2011 IEEE 802.1QBP : 2014 IEEE 802.1QBC : 2011 IEEE 802.1AH : 2008 IEEE 802.1AQ : 2012 IEEE 802.1AG : 2007 IEEE 802.1S : 2002 IEEE 802.20B : 2010 IEEE 802.1QAT : 2010 IEEE 802.1QAW : 2009 IEEE 802.1QBG : 2012 IEEE DRAFT 802.1Q : D5.0 2005 IEEE 802.1AK : 2007 IEEE 802.1QAV : 2009 IEEE 802.1QAU : 2010 IEEE 802.1U : 2001 IEEE 802.1V : 2001 IEEE 802.1AJ : 2009 IEEE 802.1QBE : 2011 IEEE 802.1QBB : 2011 IEEE 802.1QAY : 2009
Superseded By	IEEE 802.1Q : 2018