ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition
[Incorporates ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D, 1993 Edition, IEEE P802.1p,
IEEE Std 802.1j-1996, IEEE Std 802.6k-1992,
IEEE Std 802.11c-1998, and IEEE P802.12e]
(Adopted by ISO/IEC and redesignated as
ISO/IEC 15802-3:1998)
IEEE Standard for Information technology
Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
Local and metropolitan area networks
Common specifications
Part 3: Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges
Adopted by the ISO/IEC and redesignated as
ISO/IEC 15802-3:1998
Sponsor
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition
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Introduction to ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition
[This introduction is not part of ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition, Information technology—Telecommunications
and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Common specifications—Part 3:
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges.]
This standard is part of a family of standards for local and metropolitan area networks. The relationship
between the standard and other members of the family is shown below. (The numbers in the figure refer to
IEEE standard numbers.)
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802.2 LOGICAL LINK CONTROL
802.1 BRIDGING
DATA
LINK
LAYER
802.3
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.4
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.5
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.6
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.9
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.11
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.12
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.14
MEDIUM
ACCESS
802.3
PHYSICAL
802.4
PHYSICAL
802.5
PHYSICAL
802.6
PHYSICAL
802.9
PHYSICAL
802.11
PHYSICAL
802.12
PHYSICAL
802.14
PHYSICAL
PHYSICAL
LAYER
* Formerly IEEE Std 802.1A.
This family of standards deals with the Physical and Data Link layers as defined by the International Organi-
zation for Standardization (ISO) Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Basic Reference Model (ISO/IEC
7498-1 : 1994). The access standards define seven types of medium access technologies and associated
physical media, each appropriate for particular applications or system objectives. Other types are under
investigation.
The standards defining the technologies noted above are as follows:
•
IEEE Std 802
Overview and Architecture.
ily of IEEE 802 Standards.
This standard provides an overview to the fam-
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1B
and 802.1k
[ISO/IEC 15802-2]
LAN/MAN Management.
ture, and services and protocol elements for use in a LAN/MAN environ-
ment for performing remote management.
Defines an OSI management-compatible architec-
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D
[ISO/IEC 15802-3]
Specifies an architecture and protocol
Media Access Control
(MAC) Bridges.
for the interconnection of IEEE 802 LANs below the MAC service boundary.
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1E
[ISO/IEC 15802-4]
System Load Protocol.
of management concerned with the loading of systems on IEEE 802 LANs.
Specifies a set of services and protocol for those aspects
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1F
Common Definitions and Procedures for IEEE 802 Management Information
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1G
[ISO/IEC 15802-5]
Remote Media Access Control
(MAC) bridging
interconnection, using non-LAN communication technologies, of geographically
separated IEEE 802 LANs below the level of the logical link control protocol.
. Specifies extensions for the
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.2
Logical link control
[ISO/IEC 8802-2]
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• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.3
CSMA/CD access method and physical layer specifications
[ISO/IEC 8802-3]
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.4
Token passing bus access method and physical layer specifications
[ISO/IEC 8802-4]
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.5
Token ring access method and physical layer specifications
[ISO/IEC 8802-5]
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.6
[ISO/IEC 8802-6]
Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) access method and physical layer
specifications
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.9
[ISO/IEC 8802-9]
Integrated Services (IS) LAN Interface at the Medium Access Control
(MAC) and Physical (PHY) Layers
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.10
Interoperable LAN/MAN Security
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11
[ISO/IEC DIS 8802-11]
Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and physical layer specifi-
cations
• ANSI/IEEE Std 802.12
[ISO/IEC 8802-12]
Demand-priority access method, physical layer and repeater specifica-
tions
In addition to the family of standards, the following is a recommended practice for a common Physical
Layer technology:
•
IEEE Std 802.7
IEEE Recommended Practice for Broadband Local Area Networks
The following additional working group has authorized standards projects under development:
• IEEE 802.14
Standard Protocol for Cable-TV Based Broadband Communication Network
Conformance test methodology
An additional standards series, identified by the number 1802, has been established to identify the conform-
ance test methodology documents for the 802 family of standards. Thus the conformance test documents for
802.3 are numbered 1802.3.
ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition
The MAC Bridge standardization activities that resulted in the development of IEEE Std 802.1D-1990 (sub-
sequently republished as ISO/IEC 10038:1993 [IEEE Std 802.1D, 1993 Edition]) specified an architecture
and protocol for the interconnection of IEEE 802 LANs below the MAC Service boundary. IEEE Std
802.1D-1990 also introduced the concept of filtering services in Bridged LANs, and mechanisms whereby
filtering information in such LANs may be acquired and held in a Filtering Database. This revision of ISO/
IEC 10038: 1993 extends this concept of filtering services in order to define additional capabilities in
Bridged LANs aimed at the following:
a)
b)
The provision of expedited traffic capabilities, to support the transmission of time-critical informa-
tion in a LAN environment;
The provision of filtering services that support the dynamic definition and establishment of Groups
in a LAN environment, and the filtering of frames by Bridges such that frames addressed to a given
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Group are forwarded only on those LAN segments that are required in order to reach the members of
that Group.
To this end, this document incorporates a set of changes and additions to ISO/IEC 10038: 1993 that define
the following:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
The nature of Filtering Services in Bridged LANs;
The concept of Traffic Classes and the effect on the operation of the Forwarding Process of support-
ing multiple Traffic Classes in Bridges;
The structure of the Filtering Database that is needed in order to support Dynamic Multicast Filter-
ing services;
The registration protocol that is required in order to provide Dynamic Multicast Filtering Services;
The management services and operations that are required in order to support administration of
Dynamic Multicast Filtering Services.
Relationship between IEEE Std 802.1D and IEEE P802.1Q
A further IEEE standard under development, IEEE P802.1Q, extends the concepts of filtering services and
MAC Bridging in order to provide a set of capabilities that allow MAC Bridges to support the definition and
management of Virtual LANs (VLANs).
The capabilities defined in IEEE P802.1Q include the definition of a VLAN frame format that is able to
carry VLAN identification and user priority information over LAN technologies, such as CSMA/CD, that
have no inherent capability to signal priority information. This information is carried in an additional header
, which is inserted immediately following the Destination MAC Address, and
field, known as the
Source MAC Address (and Routing Information field, if present) of the original frame. IEEE P802.1Q
extends the priority handling aspects of this standard to make use of the ability of the VLAN frame format to
carry user priority information end to end across any set of concatenated underlying MACs.
Tag Header
The VLAN Bridging specification contained in IEEE 802.1Q is independent of this standard, in the sense
that IEEE 802.1Q makes a separate and distinct statement of the conformance requirements for VLAN
Bridges from the conformance requirements for MAC Bridges defined in this standard. However, IEEE
802.1Q makes use of many of the elements of the specification contained in this standard, in particular
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
The Bridge architecture;
The Internal Sublayer Service, and the specification of its provision by IEEE 802 LAN MACs;
The major features of the operation of the Forwarding Process;
The Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol;
The Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP); and
The GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (GMRP).
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Participants
The following is a list of participants in the Interworking activities of the IEEE 802.1 Working Group. Voting
members at the time of publication are marked with an asterisk (*).
William P. Lidinsky,
Chair*
Mick Seaman,
Chair, Interworking Task Group*
Tony Jeffree
*
,
Editor
Steve Adams*
Stephen Ades
Ken Alonge
Floyd Backes*
John Bartlett*
Les Bell*
Avner Ben-Dor
Michael Berger*
James S. Binder*
David Brady
Martin Brewer
Bill Bunch*
Bob Cardinal
Paul Carroll*
Jeffrey Catlin*
Dennis Cave
Alan Chambers*
Steve Chan
David W. Chang*
Ken Chapman
Hon Wah Chin*
Chi Chong
Chris Christ*
Paul Congdon*
Glenn Connery*
David Cullerot*
Ted Davies*
Andy Davis
David Delaney*
Prakash Desai
Jeffrey Dietz*
Kurt Dobbins
Peter Ecclesine*
J. J. Ekstrom*
Norman W. Finn*
Yishai Fraenkel
Paul Frantz
Lars Henrik Frederiksen*
Anoop Ghanwani*
John Grinham
Steve Haddock
Sharam Hakimi*
John Hart*
Scott Harvell
Wayne Hathaway
Richard Hausman*
Vic Hayes
David Head*
Gaby Hecht
Deepak Hegde*
Ariel Hendel
John Hickey
David Hollender
Steve Horowitz*
Michelle Hsiung
Rita Hunt
David Husak
Altaf Hussain*
Vipin K. Jain*
Neil Jarvis
Tony Jeffree*
Allen Kasey
Toyoyuki Kato*
Hal Keen*
Kevin Ketchum*
Keith Klamm*
Bruce Kling*
Walter Knitl
Dan Krent*
Paul Kummer
Paul Lachapelle*
Bill Lane
Paul Langille*
Bill Lidinsky*
Johann Lindmeyr*
Gary Littleton
Robert D. Love
Andy Luque
Peter Martini
Keith McCloghrie
Martin McNealis
Milan Merhar*
John Messenger*
Colin Mick
Amol Mitra
Yaron Nachman*
Krishna Narayanaswamy*
Paul Nikolich
Lawrence Ng*
Henry Ngai*
Eugene O’Neil
Satoshi Obara*
Toshio Ooka*
Jorg Ottensmeyer*
Luc Pariseau*
Yonadav Perry
John Pickens*
Gideon Prat
Kirk Preiss
Steve Ramberg*
Shlomo Reches*
Dick Reohr
James Richmond*
Anil Rijsinghani*
Doug Ruby
Ray Samora
Ayman Sayed*
Mick Seaman*
Rich Seifert
Lee Sendelbach*
Himanshu Shah*
Phil Simmons*
K. Karl Shimada
Fred Shu
Paramjeet Singh*
Rosemary V. Slager*
Alexander Smith*
Andrew Smith*
Larry Stefani*
Stuart Soloway*
Sundar Subramaniam*
Richard Sweatt
Robin Tasker*
Fouad Tobagi
Naoki Tsukutari
Dhadesugoor Vaman
Steve Van Seters*
Dono van-Mierop*
John Wakerly*
Peter Wang*
Philip Wang
Y. C. Wang*
Trevor Warwick*
Bob Watson
Alan Weissberger
Glenn Wenig
Keith Willette*
Michael Witkowski*
Edward Wong*
Michael D. Wright*
Michele Wright*
Allen Yu*
Wayne Zakowski*
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The following persons were on the balloting committee of IEEE Std 802.1D:
William B. Adams
Kit Athul
William E. Ayen
Thomas W. Bailey
Brad J. Booth
Peter K. Campbell
James T. Carlo
David E. Carlson
Alan M. Chambers
Frederick N. Chase
Robert S. Crowder
Thomas J. Dineen
Peter Ecclesine
John W. Fendrich
Michael A. Fischer
Harvey A. Freeman
Patrick S. Gonia
Julio Gonzalez-Sanz
Robert M. Grow
Chris G. Guy
Stephen R. Haddock
Allen W. Hathaway
J. Scott Haugdahl
Kenneth C. Heck
Henry Hoyt
Raj Jain
Neil A. Jarvis
Tony Jeffree
Edward R. Kelly
Peter M. Kelly
Yongbum Kim
Thaddeus Kobylarz
Daniel R. Krent
Stephen Barton Kruger
Kenneth C. Kung
William G. Lane
David J. Law
Lanse M. Leach
William Lidinsky
Randolph S. Little
Joseph G. Maley
Peter Martini
Chris McDonald
Milan Merhar
John L. Messenger
Bennett Meyer
Colin K. Mick
Gene E. Milligan
David S. Millman
Warren Monroe
John E. Montague
Wayne D. Moyers
Shimon Muller
Paul Nikolich
Robert O’Hara
Charles Oestereicher
Joerg Ottensmeyer
Roger Pandanda
Lucy W. Person
John R. Pickens
Vikram Punj
Andris Putnins
Edouard Y. Rocher
James W. Romlein
Floyd E. Ross
Christoph Ruland
Norman Schneidewind
Mick Seaman
Rich Seifert
Michael A. Smith
William R. Smith
Patricia Thaler
Geoffrey O. Thompson
Mark-Rene Uchida
John Viaplana
Barry M. Vornbrock
Donald F. Weir
Earl J. Whitaker
Qian-li Yang
Oren Yuen
Jonathan M. Zweig
When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved IEEE Std 802.1D on 25 June 1998, it had the following
membership:
Richard J. Holleman,
Chair
Donald N. Heirman,
Vice Chair
Judith Gorman,
Secretary
Satish K. Aggarwal
Clyde R. Camp
James T. Carlo
Gary R. Engmann
Harold E. Epstein
Jay Forster*
Thomas F. Garrity
Ruben D. Garzon
*Member Emeritus
James H. Gurney
Jim D. Isaak
Lowell G. Johnson
Robert Kennelly
E. G. “Al” Kiener
Joseph L. Koepfinger*
Stephen R. Lambert
Jim Logothetis
Donald C. Loughry
L. Bruce McClung
Louis-François Pau
Ronald C. Petersen
Gerald H. Peterson
John B. Posey
Gary S. Robinson
Hans E. Weinrich
Donald W. Zipse
Kristin M. Dittmann
IEEE Standards Project Editor
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IEEE Std 802.11c-1998
IEEE Std 802.11c-1998 adds the necessary information to map the IEEE 802.11 MAC parameters onto ISO/
IEC 15802-3 (IEEE Std 802.1D) parameters.
Participants
At the time the draft of IEEE Std 802.11c was sent to sponsor ballot, the IEEE 802.11 working group had the
following voting members:
Victor Hayes,
Chair
Victoria M. Poncini,
Task Group Chair
Jeff Abramowitz
Keith B. Amundsen
Carl F. Andren
Kazuhiro Aoyagi
David Bagby
Phil Belanger
John Biddick
Simon Black
Jan Boer
Ronald Brockmann
Wesley Brodsky
John H. Cafarella
Naftali Chayat
Ken Clements
Wim Diepstraten
Darrol Draper
Peter Ecclesine
Darwin Engwer
John Fakatselis
Jeff Fischer
Matthew Fischer
Michael Fischer
George Fishel
John Fisher
Motohiro Gochi
Tim Godfrey
Jan Haagh
Karl Hannestad
Robert Heile
Maarten Hoeben
Duane Hurne
Masayuki Ikeda
Richard Jai
Donald C. Johnson
Nobuo Karaki
Dean M. Kawaguchi
Stuart J. Kerry
Isao Masaki
Jim McDonald
Gene Miller
Akira Miura
Masaharu Mori
Masahiro Morikura
Ravi P. Nalamati
Colin Nayler
Richard van Nee
Bob O’Hara
Tomoki Ohsawa
Kazuhiro Okanoue
Richard H. Paine
Al Petrick
Bob Pham
Stanley A. Reible
William Roberts
Kent G. Rollins
Oren Rosenfeld
Michael Rothenberg
Clemens C.W. Ruppel
Chandos Rypinski
Anil K. Sanwalka
Roy Sebring
Mike Shiba
Thomas Siep
Donald I. Sloan
Hitoshi Takanashi
Satoru Toguchi
Cherry Tom
Mike Trompower
Tom Tsoulogiannis
Sarosh Vesuna
Nien C. Wei
Harry Worstell
Timothy M. Zimmerman
Johnny Zweig
Jim Zyren
Major contributions were received from Henri Moelard.
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