[asterisk-users] Experience with LLDP

Olivier oza-4h07 at myamail.com
Tue Nov 24 14:12:38 CST 2009


2009/11/24 Warren Selby <wcselby at selbytech.com>

> If you have a network that doesn't support CDP (such as an all Juniper
> network), LLDP will do the job for you, as long as your phone supports
> it. The latest Polycom sip firmware supports it (but none of their
> older phones can run the new firmware, just the newer ones), as well
> as the latest bootrom. The Cisco 79x1 series and newer support it, but
> not the older 79x0 series. I believe I spoke with Aastra and Snom at
> the Astricon tradeshow and they said they support it on their newer
> models as well.
>
> LLDP is fine if you can't run CDP for whatever reason, the main
> sticking point is the phone support.
>

Lately, I've seen more and more phones (Aastra, Thomson, ...) support LLDP
(in fact LLDP-MED) but you're right to underline some older models can't
support it.



>
> Thanks,
> --Warren Selby
>
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > LLDP is more and more available on various network elements
> > (endpoint, switches, ...).
> > It seems to ease network configuration.
> >
> > Do you have any experience with it ?
> > How would you rate LLDP ?
> >
> > Regards
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