Virtual Router Passport Tbsg Outbound Frame Media Type

This attribute specifies the media type the frame must be in before it is to be forwarded over the outbound supported WAN Bridge Protocol Port. The attribute only applies to outbound Bridge Protocol Port. For supported bridge ports, if the attribute value remains set to the default value of unaltered then there will be no frame conversion. When the value is set to the value ethernetConv then all frames being forwarded out the outbound WAN Port will be converted to ethernet before forwarding takes place. The only outbound WAN medias that currently support conversion are: FR (Frame Relay) and VNS. All other medias will fail the Bridge Port semantic check when attempts are made to alter this attribute. The following is an example of what the user may be able to do. Frames originating from a Token Ring are to be flooded out onto another Token Ring and a Frame Relay Port. The token ring Outbound port performs no translation, yet the FR Port has the outboundFrameMediaType attribute set to ethernetConv which results in the frame being translated into Ethernet format from Token Ring format before Frame Relay does its encapsulation and transmits over the FR port.