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Brocade ICX 6650 Administration Guide

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Chapter

8

LLDP and LLDP-MED

In this chapter

LLDP terms used in this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

LLDP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

LLDP-MED overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

General LLDP operating principles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

MIB support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Syslog messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

LLDP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

LLDP-MED configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Brocade device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Resetting LLDP statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Clearing cached LLDP neighbor information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Table 41

lists the Brocade ICX 6650 switch and the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) features

the switch supports. These features are supported in full Layer 3 software images, except where
explicitly noted.

TABLE 41

Supported LLDP features

Feature

Brocade ICX
6650

LLDP Yes

LLDP-MED

Yes

Support for tagged LLDP packets

Yes

IPv4 management address advertisement Yes

IPv6 management address advertisement Yes

LLDP operating mode setting per port

Yes

Setting the maximum number of LLDP
neighbors

Yes

SNMP and Syslog messages

Yes

LLDP transmission intervals

Yes

Holdtime multiplier for transmit TTL

Yes

Configuring the minimum time between
port reinitializations

Yes

Fast start repeat count for LLDP-MED

Yes

Location ID for LLDP-MED

Yes