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802.1AB (LLDP) Overview............................................................................................................................................535
Protocol Data Units................................................................................................................................................. 535
Optional TLVs.................................................................................................................................................................536
Management TLVs.................................................................................................................................................. 536
TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) Overview................................................................................................................................ 538
TIA Organizationally Specic TLVs........................................................................................................................ 538
Congure LLDP..............................................................................................................................................................542
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................542
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 542
LLDP Compatibility..................................................................................................................................................543
CONFIGURATION versus INTERFACE Congurations............................................................................................ 543
Enabling LLDP................................................................................................................................................................543
Disabling and Undoing LLDP.................................................................................................................................. 544
Enabling LLDP on Management Ports........................................................................................................................544
Disabling and Undoing LLDP on Management Ports.......................................................................................... 544
Advertising TLVs............................................................................................................................................................ 544
Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs.........................................................................................................546
Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..................................................................................................................... 546
Organizational Specic Unrecognized LLDP TLVs..............................................................................................546
Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs........................................................................................................................ 546
Viewing the LLDP Conguration..................................................................................................................................547
Viewing Information Advertised by Adjacent LLDP Neighbors................................................................................547
Examples of Viewing Information Advertised by Neighbors...............................................................................547
Conguring LLDPDU Intervals.....................................................................................................................................549
Conguring LLDP Notication Interval.......................................................................................................................550
Conguring Transmit and Receive Mode................................................................................................................... 550
Conguring the Time to Live Value.............................................................................................................................. 551
Debugging LLDP............................................................................................................................................................552
Relevant Management Objects................................................................................................................................... 553
31 Microsoft Network Load Balancing...........................................................................................................558
NLB Unicast Mode Scenario........................................................................................................................................558
NLB Multicast Mode Scenario.....................................................................................................................................558
Limitations of the NLB Feature....................................................................................................................................559
Microsoft Clustering......................................................................................................................................................559
Enable and Disable VLAN Flooding ............................................................................................................................ 559
Conguring a Switch for NLB .....................................................................................................................................559
Enabling a Switch for Multicast NLB.................................................................................................................... 560
32 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)..........................................................................................561
Protocol Overview..........................................................................................................................................................561
Anycast RP.....................................................................................................................................................................562
Implementation Information......................................................................................................................................... 563
Congure Multicast Source Discovery Protocol........................................................................................................563
Related Conguration Tasks...................................................................................................................................563
Enable MSDP................................................................................................................................................................. 567
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