Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual Lldp and LLDP-MED

	Chapter
LLDP and LLDP-MED	8

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	Yes
neighbors
SNMP and Syslog messages	Yes
LLDP transmission intervals	Yes
Holdtime multiplier for transmit TTL	Yes
Configuring the minimum time between	Yes
port reinitializations
Fast start repeat count for LLDP-MED	Yes
Location ID for LLDP-MED	Yes

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