IEEE 802.1AB 2005
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IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks — Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery
Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
IEEE | 2005 | 172 |
New IEEE Standard – Inactive – Superseded. This document defines a protocol and a set of managed objects that can be used for discovering the physical topology from adjacent stations in 802 LANs.
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PDF Pages | PDF Title |
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2 | Title Page |
4 | Introduction Notice to users |
5 | Participants |
7 | CONTENTS |
12 | List of Figures |
13 | List of Tables |
15 | 1. Overview 1.1 Scope 1.2 Purpose |
17 | 2. References |
19 | 3. Definitions and numerical representation 3.1 Definitions |
20 | 3.2 Numerical representation |
21 | 4. Acronyms and abbreviations |
22 | 5. Conformance 5.1 Terminology 5.2 Required capabilities |
23 | 5.3 Optional capabilities |
24 | 6. Architectural overview |
26 | 7. Principles of operation 7.1 LLDP operational modes 7.2 Connectivity and management information |
27 | 7.3 Optional information categories 7.4 LLDP design principles |
28 | 7.5 TLV selection 7.6 Transmission principles 7.7 Reception principles 7.7.1 LLDPDU and TLV error handling 7.7.2 LLDP remote systems MIB update |
29 | 7.8 Relationship between LLDP and IETF MIBs 7.8.1 IETF Physical Topology MIB 7.8.2 IETF Entity MIB 7.8.3 IETF Interfaces MIB |
30 | 8. LLDPDU transmission, reception, and addressing 8.1 Destination address |
31 | 8.2 Source address 8.3 Ethertype use and encoding 8.4 LLDPDU reception |
32 | 9. LLDPDU and TLV formats 9.1 LLDPDU bit and octet ordering conventions 9.2 LLDPDU format 9.3 TLV categories |
33 | 9.4 Basic TLV format 9.4.1 TLV type |
34 | 9.4.2 TLV information string length 9.4.3 TLV information string 9.5 Basic management TLV set formats and definitions 9.5.1 End Of LLDPDU TLV |
35 | 9.5.2 Chassis ID TLV |
36 | 9.5.3 Port ID TLV |
38 | 9.5.4 Time To Live TLV 9.5.5 Port Description TLV |
39 | 9.5.6 System Name TLV |
40 | 9.5.7 System Description TLV 9.5.8 System Capabilities TLV |
41 | 9.5.9 Management Address TLV |
43 | 9.6 Organizationally Specific TLVs |
44 | 9.6.1 Basic Organizationally Specific TLV format |
45 | 9.6.2 Organizationally Specific TLV usage rules |
46 | 10. The protocol |
47 | 10.1 Protocol initialization 10.1.1 LLDP transmit module initialization 10.1.2 LLDP receive module initialization 10.2 Frame transmission |
48 | 10.2.1 LLDPDU construction |
49 | 10.2.2 LLDP frame formatting/transmission 10.3 Frame reception 10.3.1 LLDP frame recognition 10.3.2 LLDPDU validation |
52 | 10.3.3 TLV/MIB object value comparison |
53 | 10.3.4 Too many neighbors |
54 | 10.3.5 LLDP remote systems MIB update 10.3.6 LLDP remote systems rxInfoTTL timer expiration 10.3.7 LLDP local port/connection failure 10.4 Notational conventions used in state diagrams. |
57 | 10.5 State machines 10.5.1 Global variables 10.5.2 Statistical counters |
58 | 10.5.3 Timers |
59 | 10.5.4 Transmit state machine |
60 | 10.5.5 Receive state machine |
63 | 11. LLDP management 11.1 Data storage and retrieval 11.2 The LLDP manager’s responsibilities: 11.2.1 Protocol initialization management 11.2.2 TLV selection management |
64 | 11.2.3 Transmission management 11.2.4 Reception management 11.2.5 Performance management |
65 | 11.3 Managed objects 11.4 Data types 11.5 LLDP variables 11.5.1 LLDP operational status and control |
66 | 11.5.2 LLDP operational statistics counters 11.5.3 TLV required variables |
67 | 11.5.4 Relationship between LLDP variables and LLDP managed objects |
71 | 12. LLDP MIB definitions 12.1 LLDP MIB design philosophy |
72 | 12.2 LLDP MIB module , |
107 | 12.3 Security considerations for LLDP base MIB module |
109 | Annex A (informative) Bibliography |
110 | Annex B (normative) PICS Proforma B.1 Introduction B.2 Abbreviations and special symbols |
111 | B.3 Instructions for completing the PICS proforma |
114 | B.4 Major capabilities and options |
116 | Annex C (informative) PTOPO MIB update |
117 | Annex D (informative) Example LLDP transmission frame formats D.1 Direct-encoded LLDP frame format D.2 SNAP-encoded LLDP frame format |
118 | Annex E (informative) Using LLDP to detect potential communication problems E.1 Overview E.2 IEEE 802.1 Organizationally Specific TLVs |
119 | E.3 IEEE 802.3 Organizationally Specific TLVs |
121 | Annex F (normative) IEEE 802.1 Organizationally Specific TLVs F.1 Requirements of the IEEE 802.1 Organizationally Specific TLV set F.2 Port VLAN ID TLV |
122 | F.3 Port And Protocol VLAN ID TLV |
123 | F.4 VLAN Name TLV |
124 | F.5 Protocol Identity TLV |
125 | F.6 IEEE 802.1 Organizationally Specific TLV management |
127 | F.7 IEEE 802.1/LLDP extension MIB |
144 | F.8 PICS proforma for IEEE 802.1 Organizationally SpecificTLV extensions |
146 | Annex G (normative) IEEE 802.3 Organizationally Specific TLVs G.1 Requirements of the IEEE 802.3 Organizationally Specific TLV set G.2 MAC/PHY Configuration/Status TLV |
147 | G.3 Power Via MDI TLV |
149 | G.4 Link Aggregation TLV |
150 | G.5 Maximum Frame Size TLV G.6 IEEE 802.3 Organizationally Specific TLV selection management |
153 | G.7 IEEE 802.1/LLDP extension MIB |
171 | G.8 PICS proforma for IEEE 802.3 TLV extensions |