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| Link Layer Discovery Protocol | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer | |
| protocol used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities, | |
| and neighbors on a wired Ethernet network. | |
| For more information, see this | |
| `LLDP Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol>`_. | |
| API Reference | |
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| .. doxygengroup:: lldp |