Lldpdus, Tlvs – H3C Technologies H3C WX5500E Series Access Controllers User Manual

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Field Description

FCS

Frame check sequence, a 32-bit CRC value used to determine the
validity of the received Ethernet frame.

LLDPDUs encapsulated in SNAP

Figure 186 LLDPDU encapsulated in SNAP

Table 73 Description of the fields in a SNAP-encapsulated LLDPDU

Field Description

Destination MAC address

MAC address to which the LLDPDU is advertised. It is fixed to
0x0180-C200-000E, a multicast MAC address.

Source MAC address

MAC address of the sending port. If the port does not have a MAC
address, the MAC address of the sending bridge is used.

Type

SNAP-encoded LLDP Ethernet type for the upper layer protocol. It is
0xAAAA-0300-0000-88CC for LLDP.

Data

LLDP data unit.

FCS

Frame check sequence, a 32-bit CRC value used to determine the
validity of the received Ethernet frame.

LLDPDUs

LLDP uses LLDPDUs to exchange information. An LLDPDU comprises multiple TLV sequences, each

carrying a type of device information, as shown in

Figure 187

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Figure 187 LLDPDU encapsulation format

An LLDPDU can carry up 28 types of TLVs, of which the chassis ID TLV, port ID TLV, TTL TLV, and end of
LLDPDU TLV are mandatory TLVs that must be carried and other TLVs are optional.

TLVs

TLVs are type, length, and value sequences that carry information elements, where the type field identifies

the type of information, the length field indicates the length of the information field in octets, and the

value field contains the information itself.
LLDPDU TLVs include the following categories:

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