LLDP-MED location limitation on 3548P?

Hello everyone,

I'm running into an interesting issue with configuring LLDP-MED location information on a stack of  Dell 3458P switches. I'm running firmware 2.0.0.47.

I'm using the configuration command like this (with a much longer/more complete civic-address obviously!)

console> enable
console# conf
console(config)# int eth 1/e1
console(config-if)# lldp med location civic-address 99080255531303383030

This works fine for the first 8 switch ports, however the 9th port I configure yields the message

Resource Unavailable

This happens with both coordinate based locations and civic addresses, and if I use an interface range, I just get a lot of Resource Unavailable messages. I can configure any 8 ports, it doesn't have to be the first 8, and I get a similar message if I try and do it through the GUI.

It appears there is a limit  on the number of ports that can be configured with location information, which is pretty stupid, because the whole point of the location information is so E911 providers get sent to the right location in the event of an emergency, and therefore it needs to be configured on a per port basis. I'd even be OK with doing it on a port range basis (I actually only have 2 locations I want to use), but it just converts into individual commands in the configuration.

Can someone confirm this restriction for me or point out what I'm doing wrong?

There's a complete dearth of information on this subject, In fact the CLI reference just gives the command syntax and references ANSI/TIA 1057 for the data format, which is painful to wade through especially when you're used to the C*sco method of doing this :emotion-39:

Thanks in advance for any insight,

Gary E.