Dldp operating mode, Dldp implementation – H3C Technologies H3C WX3000 Series Unified Switches User Manual

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20-4

Timer

Description

Delaydown timer

When a device in the active, advertisement, or probe DLDP state
receives a port down message, it does not removes the corresponding
neighbor immediately, neither does it changes to the inactive state.
Instead, it changes to the delaydown state first.
When a device changes to the delaydown state, the related DLDP
neighbor information remains, and the Delaydown timer is triggered. The
Delaydown timer is configurable and ranges from 1 to 5 seconds.
A device in the delaydown state only responds to port up messages.
A device in the delaydown state resumes its original DLDP state if it
receives a port up message before the delaydown timer expires.
Otherwise, it removes the DLDP neighbor information and changes to the
inactive state.

DLDP operating mode

DLDP can operate in two modes: normal and enhanced.

Table 20-3

DLDP operating mode and neighbor entry aging

DLDP operating

mode

Whether DLDP

probes neighbor

during neighbor

entry aging

Whether entry aging

timer is enabled during

neighbor entry aging

Whether enhanced timer is

enabled when entry aging timer

expire

Normal mode

No

Yes (the neighbor entry
ages after the entry aging
timer expires)

No

Enhanced mode

Yes

Yes (the enhanced timer is
enabled after the entry
aging timer expires)

Yes (When the enhanced timer
expires, the local end is set to
single pass status, and the
neighbor entry ages)

DLDP implementation

1) If the DLDP-enabled link is up, DLDP sends DLDP packets to the peer device, and analyses and

processes DLDP packets received from the peer device. DLDP in different status sends different
packets.

Table 20-4

Types of packets sent by DLDP

DLDP status

Packet types

Active

Advertisement packets, including those with or without RSY tags

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packets

Probe Probe

packets

2) DLDP analyzes and processes received packets as follows:

z

In authentication mode, DLDP authenticates the packets, and discards those do not pass the
authentication.

z

DLDP processes the received DLDP packets.

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