information. The receiving LLDP agent discards all information related to the sending LLDP
agent after the time interval indicated in the TTL field is complete.
Note: A TTL value of zero can be used to signal that the sending LLDP port has initiated a port
shutdown procedure.
The End Of LLDPDU TLV indicates the end of the LLDPDU.
Listed below is the information included in the protocol defined by the IEEE 802.1ab standard:
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Connectivity and management information about the local station to adjacent stations on
the same IEEE 802 LAN is advertised.
Network management information from adjacent stations on the same IEEE 802 LAN is
received.
Operates with all IEEE 802 access protocols and network media.
Network management information schema and object definitions that suitable for storing
connection information about adjacent stations is established.
Provides compatibility with a number of MIBs.
Figure 29: LLDP Internal Architecture for a Network Node
System Management
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