LLDP TLVs advertised by the RUCKUS device

When LLDP is enabled on a global basis, the RUCKUS device will automatically advertise the following information, except for the features noted:

General system information:

  • Management address
  • Port description
  • System capabilities
  • System description (not automatically advertised)
  • System name

802.1 capabilities:

  • VLAN name (not automatically advertised)
  • Untagged VLAN ID

802.3 capabilities:

  • Link aggregation information
  • MAC/PHY configuration and status
  • Maximum frame size
  • Power-via-MDI information (not automatically advertised)

The above TLVs are described in detail in the following sections.

Note: The system description, VLAN name, and power-via-MDI information TLVs are not automatically enabled. The following sections show how to enable these advertisements.

In this section:

  1. Management address
    A management address is normally an IPv4 or IPv6 address that can be used to manage the device.
  2. Advertising IP management address
    The following steps shows to advertise the IP management address.
  3. Port parameters
    The port description TLV identifies the port from which the LLDP agent transmitted the advertisement. The port description is taken from the ifDescr MIB object from MIB-II.
  4. System capabilities
    The system capabilities TLV identifies the primary functions of the device and indicates whether these primary functions are enabled.
  5. System description
    The system description is the network entity, which can include information such as the product name or model number, the version of the system hardware type, the software operating system level, and the networking software version. The information corresponds to the sysDescr MIB object in MIB-II.
  6. General system information for LLDP
  7. 802.1 capabilities
  8. 802.3 capabilities
Parent topic: LLDP Configuration