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Link Layer Discovery Protocol

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Overview

The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer protocol used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities, and neighbors on a wired Ethernet network.

For more information, see this LLDP Wikipedia article.

API Reference

Link Layer Discovery Protocol definitions and helpers

Related code samples

  • Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)Enable LLDP support and setup VLANs.

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