MVID 0Dh - Initialize Ring Station

Destination Address: [concerned station's MAC address]

Destination Class: 0 (ring station)

Source Class: 5 (Ring Parameter Server)

Subvectors: optional: SVID 09h - Correlator

optional: SVID 03h - Local Ring Number

optional: SVID 04h - Assign Physical Drop Number

optional: SVID 05h - Soft Error Report Timer

'Initialize ring station' MAC frames are sent by the ring parameter server to set parameters in the adapter when the adapter is in the insertion process and transmits a "request initialization" MAC frame. When received, this frame can set the following parameters:

> local ring number

> physical drop number

> error report timer value