On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas <graw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Tomasz Torcz <to...@pipebreaker.pl> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:15:10AM +0530, Susant Sahani wrote: >> > This patch integrates LLDP with networkd. >> >> In Fedora, we already have LLDP receiver/broadcaster – ladvd. >> It has this neat feature of abusing ifAlias by putting endpoint >> name there. This gives port information right at "ip l" output: >> >> 3: enp5s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state >> UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 >> link/ether 10:78:d2:cc:7e:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> alias connected to Core2-3b-24p (Fa0/7) >> >> Would it be possible to implement this in networkd? > > > lldpd has the same feature... In fact, I'm curious what advantages will > networkd's implementation have over the existing lldpd and ladvd?
Well, the point here really is to make the LLDP information available to networkd/networkctl in a light-weight fashion (I mean we are just listening for broadcasts and saving whatever info we find, no need to run a whole own daemon just for that). Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
