Reference Guide

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) | 955

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

Overview

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) advertises connectivity and management from the

local station to the adjacent stations on an IEEE 802 LAN. LLDP facilitates multi-vendor

interoperability by using standard management tools to discover and make available a

physical topology for network management. The FTOS implementation of LLDP is based on

IEEE standard 801.1ab.

The basic LLDP commands are supported by FTOS on all Dell Force10 systems, as indicated

by the characters that appear below each command heading:

e E-Series, c C-Series, s

S-Series, or

Commands

This chapter contains the following commands, in addition to the commands in the related

section — LLDP-MED Commands.

• advertise dot1-tlv

• advertise dot3-tlv

• advertise management-tlv

• clear lldp counters

• clear lldp neighbors

• debug lldp interface

• disable

• hello

• mode

• multiplier

• protocol lldp (Configuration)

• protocol lldp (Interface)

• show lldp neighbors

• show lldp statistics

• show running-config lldp