
BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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General operating principles
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Can discover devices with misconfigured or unreachable IP addresses
General operating principles
LLDP use the services of the Data Link sublayers, Logical Link Control and Media Access Control, to
transmit and receive information to and from other
LLDP Agents
(protocol entities that implement
LLDP).
LLDP is a one-way protocol. An LLDP agent can transmit and receive information to and from
another LLDP agent located on an adjacent device, but it cannot solicit information from another
LLDP agent, nor can it acknowledge information received from another LLDP agent.
Operating modes
When LLDP is enabled on a global basis, by default, each port on the Brocade device will be
capable of transmitting and receiving LLDP packets. You can disable a port’s ability to transmit
and receive LLDP packets, or change the operating mode to one of the following:
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Transmit LLDP information only
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Receive LLDP information only
Transmit mode
An LLDP agent sends LLDP packets to adjacent LLDP-enabled devices. The LLDP packets contain
information about the transmitting device and port.
An LLDP agent initiates the transmission of LLDP packets whenever the transmit countdown timing
counter expires, or whenever LLDP information has changed. When a transmit cycle is initiated,
the LLDP manager extracts the MIB objects and formats this information into TLVs. The TLVs are
inserted into an LLDPDU, addressing parameters are prepended to the LLDPDU, and the
information is sent out LLDP-enabled ports to adjacent LLDP-enabled devices.
Receive mode
An LLDP agent receives LLDP packets from adjacent LLDP-enabled devices. The LLDP packets
contain information about the transmitting device and port.
When an LLDP agent receives LLDP packets, it checks to ensure that the LLDPDUs contain the
correct sequence of mandatory TLVs, then validates optional TLVs. If the LLDP agent detects any
errors in the LLDPDUs and TLVs, it drops them in software. TLVs that are not recognized but do not
contain basic formatting errors, are assumed to be valid and are assigned a temporary
identification index and stored for future possible alter retrieval by network management. All
validated TLVs are stored in the neighbor database.
LLDP packets
LLDP agents transmit information about a sending device or port in packets called LLDP Data Units
(LLDPDUs). All the LLDP information to be communicated by a device is contained within a single
1500 byte packet. A device receiving LLDP packets is not permitted to combine information from
multiple packets.
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Страница 580: ...504 BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide 53 1002253 01 Configuring multicast traffic engineering 18 ...
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