LLDP/LLTDP/802.1AB tool

[schnide (Joe Schnide)]

Link Layer Discovery Protocol ​http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1ab.html ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol

Would like to have a tool to listen similar to what is done with cdpr for broadcasts of Cisco Discovery Protocol.

LLDP is a layer two discovery protocol, similar to Cisco's CDP. The big difference between the two is that LLDP is a standard while CDP is a Cisco proprietary protocol. Cisco devices support the IEEE 802.1ab version of LLDP. This allows non-Cisco devices to advertise information about themselves to our network devices.

An lldpd client would also be nice to have on the Mac so didn't have to find else and compile from source.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

See also #50586.

[schnide (Joe Schnide)]

Appreciate the pointer but would like to do a port install lldpd and not have to set up homebrew env or compile source

Thanks

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

That only meant that the request already existed. I don't know if you were specifically looking for lldpd, as the request was quite generic and did not link to any upstream project. If these tickets are a request for the same software, we should close one as a duplicate.

You could also try to create a port for lldpd yourself. See the ​guide on how to write a Portfile.