Lldp Overview; Benefits Of Lldp - Brocade Communications Systems FastIron Administration Manual

LLDP overview

TTL (Time-to-Live) - Specifies the length of time that the receiving device should maintain the
information acquired through LLDP in its MIB.

LLDP overview

LLDP enables a station attached to an IEEE 802 LAN/MAN to advertise its capabilities to, and to
discover, other stations in the same 802 LAN segments.
The information distributed by LLDP (the advertisement) is stored by the receiving device in a
standard Management Information Base (MIB), accessible by a Network Management System (NMS)
using a management protocol such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The
information also can be viewed from the CLI, using show LLDP commands.
The following diagram illustrates LLDP connectivity
FIGURE 3 LLDP connectivity

Benefits of LLDP

LLDP provides the following benefits:
• Network Management:
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