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Chapter
4
Configuring LLDP
Table 19 displays the individual devices that support the Link Layer Discovery Protocol, the Foundry
Discovery Protocol (FDP), Reading Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Packets, and related feature
support.
LLDP overview
LLDP enables a station attached to an IEEE 802 LAN or MAN to advertise its capabilities and to
discover other stations in the same 802 LAN segments. The advertisements describe the
network’s physical topology and associated systems within that topology. For example, a station
can advertise its management address, the address of the entities that manage the device, and
the ID of the port to which the station is connected.
The information distributed through LLDP (the advertisement) is stored by the receiving device in a
standard Management Information Base (MIB), accessible using a management protocol such as
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The information also can be viewed through the
CLI, using show LLDP commands.
TABLE 19 Supported FDP and CDP features
Features
supported Brocade
NetIron XMR
Series Brocade
MLX Series Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
BASE
package Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
ME_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
L3_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Base
package Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Advanced
Services
package
Link Layer
Discover
Protocol (LLDP) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes