Bug#753106: O: lldpad
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Description-en: Link Layer Discovery Protocol Implementation (Runtime)
The lldpad package is an implementation of the Link Layer Discovery
Protocol (LLDP). It originated from Intel's Data Center Bridging (DCB)
software - the dcbd package. The lldpad package adds LLDP support for all ports in
addition to DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) support on DCB capable ports (as was
provided by dcbd). Also, support for additional LLDP TLVs has been added.
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DCB is a collection of emerging standards-based technologies designed to allow
Ethernet to support multiple types of traffic classes in the Data Center.
The DCBX functionality of this package is designed to work with
the DCB kernel interface (dcbnl in rtnetlink) that is included in the Linux
kernel 2.6.29 or higher. The Intel ixgbe driver supports the dcbnl interface.
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This package contains lldpad runtime binaries.
I don't really have the enthusiasm to maintain FCoE any more. The
package may not be in very good shape but FCoE's adoption itself is
very low. Popcon stats report only 18. Thus shouldn't be any concern
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