On 16-Jun-21 14:38, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think this works. Is there an established API for accessing LLDP? > > Not that I know of. > There is https://github.com/intel/openlldp which seems more current than > the 2013-era Sourceforge project. > > When using it, there is IPC from a CLI tool to the daemon to get/set info. > For all I know, it interfaces to snmpd on *nix machines as well. > > HOWEVER, I suspect that in control plane CPUs, that it's all vendor > proprietary anyway. I hope that openlldp will "just work" on the 8-port > Zyxel switch that I have that boot openwrt. > > > One comment: > > >> Unicast traffic between two control plane CPUs > >> should not be a problem, so actual ACP traffic could be sent just fine, > >> as > >> long as it is only unicast. > > > Some ACP traffic will be multicast, of course, but *over* the unicast > > pt2pt links that carry the ACP VRF. So yes, it's unicast from the > > link's PoV. > > Yes. > Do you think that the document should beat people over the head about this?
Well, I think it needs to be spelled out. It certainly wasn't instantly obvious to me (I mean a year or two ago). > Do you think that telling people to turn off DAD and NS is enough? > I guess they should turn off MLD as well. Well, they might want to do regular data plane operations, no? > Is there some IPv6 LL operational aspect that I've forgotten that would > require multicast? I'm only aware of RA/NS/DAD stuff. Might be worth asking on v6ops. > Until I revised the document this afternoon, I was > convinced that I was going to have to add some attributes to the M_FLOOD > announcement to make up for stuff that would normally arrive by NS/NA. > > In looking at things, the only thing I knew I needed was the peer's L2 > address, and that's already there in the LLDP source address. It could be > that it's hard to get at though, so we might want to keep that in mind. Ack Brian _______________________________________________ Anima mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/anima
