
What is it?
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OpenVMPS is a substitute implementation of Cisco Virtual 
Membership Policy Server (on Catalyst 5500 family of switches).
It is used on Cisco LAN switces to dynamically assign ports
to VLANs according to Ethernet Address. Because it was
developed solely on infomation obtained by observing the
network traffic between switches it is probably not complete
but it is a working subset of the protocol. More on VMPS you
can find on www.cisco.com, search for VMPS.

Features
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	- Open Source
	- Drop-In-Replacement
	- Extensions (see below)

Extensions
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During writing it I had a great idea (but did not get to it),
to implement a callbacks for external scripts on various
events. This would primarily be used to set additional 
parameters on ports depending on host connecting - such as
Sun hme interface has problems negotiating duplex with 
some switches - this could be set correctly after connecting with 
external script using SNMP client and reset after disconnecting.

