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Dell Configuration Guide for the S4048–ON System 9.14.2.4

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Storing and Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs

Dell EMC Networking OS provides support to store unrecognized (reserved and organizational specific) LLDP TLVs. Also, support is extended to retrieve the stored unrecognized TLVs using SNMP.

When the incoming TLV from LLDP neighbors is not recognized, the TLV is categorized as unrecognized TLV. The unrecognized TLVs is categorized into two types:

  1. Reserved unrecognized LLDP TLV

  2. Organizational specific unrecognized LLDP TLV

Reserved Unrecognized LLDP TLVs

The type value for reserved TLV ranging from 9 to 126.

The system processes each LLDP frame to retrieve the type and length, and stores the retrieved data of reserved unrecognized LLDP TLVs in a list. The stored list of unrecognized TLVs is removed when subsequent LLDP neighbor frame is received, neighbor is lost, or neighbor ages out. If there are multiple unrecognized TLVs with the same TLV type, only the information of first unrecognized TLV is stored and the TLV discard counter is incremented for the successive TLVs.

Organizational Specific Unrecognized LLDP TLVs

The type value for organizational specific TLV is 127.

The system processes each LLDP frame to retrieve the OUI, subtype, and data length, and stores the retrieved data of organizational specific unrecognized LLDP TLVs in a list. The stored list of organizational TLVs is removed when the neighbor is lost or neighbor ages out. The software assigns a temporary identification index for each unrecognized organizational specific LLDP TLVs upon receiving more than one TLV with the same OUI and subtype, but with different organizationally defined information strings.

NOTE

The system increments the TLV discard counter and does not store unrecognized LLDP TLV information in following scenarios:

  • If there are multiple TLVs with the same information is received

  • If DCBX is down on the receiving interface

The organizational specific TLV list is limited to store 256 entries per neighbor. If TLV entries are more than 256, then the oldest entry (of that neighbor) in the list is replaced. A syslog message appears when the organization specific unrecognized TLV list exceeds more than 205 entries (80 percent of 256) for you to take action. Following shows the syslog message:

Nov 14 03:01:53 %STKUNIT2-M:CP %LLDP-5-LLDP_ORG_UNRECOGNISED_TLV_MAX: Received Organizational Specific unrecognised TLVs exceeds threshold (205) from Remote Chassis ID: 4c:76:25:f4:ab:00, Remote Port ID: fortyGigE 1/2/8/1 on interface: Te 2/31/1

Viewing Unrecognized LLDP TLVs

You can view or retrieve the stored unrecognized (reserved and organizational specific) TLVs using the show lldp neighbor details command.

View all the LLDP TLV information including unrecognized TLVs, using the snmpwalk and snmpget commands.


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