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Re: LLDP via SNMP
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 08:55:19 -0700
In a message written on Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:16:21PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
LLDP standard itself is in my non-humble opinion broken. There are no guarantees that standard compliant LLDP will produce useful data.
Including inside a particular vendor's own implementation. For instance some junipers advertise the interface name (ge-0/0/0) and some the description ("To Bob's ISP") for the "interface name" field in the CLI. So depending on the platform and version of code you get totally different information from "show lldp neighbors". It really makes it difficult to consume the data by script. Lots of special cases. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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