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Chapter
8
LLDP and LLDP-MED
In this chapter
•LLDP terms used in this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
•LLDP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
•LLDP-MED overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
•General LLDP operating principles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
•MIB support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
•Syslog messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
•LLDP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
•LLDP-MED configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
•LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Brocade device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
•Resetting LLDP statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
•Clearing cached LLDP neighbor information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Table 41 lists the Brocade ICX 6650 switch and the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) features
the switch supports. These features are supported in full Layer 3 software images, except where
explicitly noted.
TABLE 41 Supported LLDP features
Feature Brocade ICX
6650
LLDP Yes
LLDP-MED Yes
Support for tagged LLDP packets Yes
IPv4 management address advertisement Yes
IPv6 management address advertisement Yes
LLDP operating mode setting per port Yes
Setting the maximum number of LLDP
neighbors
Yes
SNMP and Syslog messages Yes
LLDP transmission intervals Yes
Holdtime multiplier for transmit TTL Yes
Configuring the minimum time between
port reinitializations
Yes
Fast start repeat count for LLDP-MED Yes
Location ID for LLDP-MED Yes