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LLDP
Last modified: Thursday, April 07, 2005
Called the IEEE802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP), it is an emerging
standard which provides a solution for the configuration issues caused by
expanding LANs. LLDP specifically defines a standard method for
Ethernetnetwork
devices such as switches, routers and wireless LAN access points to advertise
information about themselves to other nodes on the network and store the
information they discover. LLDP runs on all 802 media. The protocol runs
over the data-link layer only, allowing two systems running different network
layer protocols to learn about each other.
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