Extreme Discovery Protocol
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Port-Mirroring Example

The following example selects port 1:3 as the mirror port and sends all traffic coming into or out of the
switch on port 1:1 to the mirror port:
enable mirroring to port 1:3 tagged
config mirroring add port 1:1
Extreme Discovery Protocol
The Extreme Discovery Protocol (EDP) is used to gather information about neighbor Extreme Networks
switches. EDP is used by the switches to exchange topology information. Information communicated
using EDP includes:
Switch MAC address (switch ID).
Switch software version information.
Switch IP address.
Switch VLAN-IP information.
Switch port number.
CAUTION
With EDP enabled, none of the wireless ports will be able to particip ate in the AccessAdapt pr otocol
which is based on EDP. For more information about wireless ports, see Chapter 6.

EDP Commands

Table17 lists EDP commands.
Table 1 7: EDP Commands
Command Description
disable edp ports <portlist> Disables the EDP on one or more ports.
enable edp ports <portlist> Enables the generation and processing of EDP messages on
one or more ports. The default setting is enabled.
show edp Displays EDP information.