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.