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Ieee_802.1 is …

IEEE 802.1 is a working group of the IEEE 802 project of the IEEE Standards Association.

It is concerned with:

• 802 Local Area Network (LAN)/Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) architecture
• internet working among 802 LANs, MANs and wide area networks
• 802 Link Security
• 802 overall network management
• protocol layers above the MAC and LLC layers

LAN/MAN bridging and management. Covers management and the lower sub-layers of OSI Layer 2,

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1