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problem, the preemption delay mechanism is imported, and it needs to wait for some times 
before the master port preempt the slave port. For keeping the continuance of the flows, the 
master port does not process to preempt by default, but turns into the Standby state. 
When configuring ULPP, it needs to specify the VLAN which is protected by this ULPP group 
through the method of MSTP instances, and ULPP does not provide the protection to other 
VLANs. 
When the uplink switch is happennig, the primary forwarding entries of the device will not be 
applied to new topology in the network. In the figure, SwitchA configures ULPP, the portA1 as 
the master port at forwarding state, here the MAC address of PC is learned by Switch D from 
portD3. After this, portA1 has the problem, the traffic is switched to portA2 to be forwarded. If 
there is the data sent to PC by SwitchD, still the data will be forwarded from portD3, and will be 
losed. Therefore, when switching the uplink, the device of configuring ULPP needs to send the 
flush packets through the port which is switched to Forwarding state, and update MAC address 
tables and ARP tables of other devices in the network. ULPP respectively uses two kinds of 
flush  packets  to  update  the  entries:  the  updated  packets  of  MAC  address  and  the  deleted 
packets of ARP. 
For making use of the bandwidth resource enough, ULPP can implement VLAN load balance 
through  the  configuration.  As  the  picture  illustrated,  SwitchA  configures  two  ULPP  groups: 
portA1 is the master port and portA2 is the slave port in group1, portA2 is the master port and 
portA1 is the slave port in group2, the VLANs are protected by group1 and group2, they are 1-
100 and 101-200. Here both portA1 and portA2 at the forwarding state, the master port and 
the  slave port  mutually backup,  and respectively  forward  the  packets of  the different  VLAN 
ranges. When  portA1 has  the  problem,  the  traffic  of  VLAN  1-200  are forwarded  by  portA2. 
After this, when portA1 is recovering the normal state, portA2 forwards the data of VLAN 101-
200 sequentially, but the data of VLAN 1-100 is switched to portA1 to forward. 










