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Brocade devices support the following Basic Management TLVs:

Chassis ID (mandatory)

Port ID (mandatory)

Time to Live (mandatory)

Port description

System name

System description

System capabilities

Management address

End of LLDPDU

Organizationally-specific TLVs are optional in LLDP implementations and are defined and
encoded by individual organizations or vendors. These TLVs include support for, but are not
limited to, the IEEE 802.1 and 802.3 standards and the TIA-1057 standard.

Brocade devices support the following Organizationally-specific TLVs:

802.1 organizationally-specific TLVs

Port VLAN ID

VLAN name TLV

802.3 organizationally-specific TLVs

MAC/PHY configuration/status

Link aggregation

Maximum frame size

Mandatory TLVs

When an LLDP agent transmits LLDP packets to other agents in the same 802 LAN segments, the
following mandatory TLVs are always included:

Chassis ID

Port ID

Time to Live (TTL)

This section describes the above TLVs in detail.

Chassis ID

The Chassis ID identifies the device that sent the LLDP packets.

There are several ways in which a device may be identified. A Chassis ID subtype, included in the
TLV and shown in

Table 62

, indicates how the device is being referenced in the Chassis ID field.

TABLE 62

Chassis ID subtypes

ID Subtype

Description

0

Reserved

1

Chassis component