169
Table 21 Description of the fields in an Ethernet II-encapsulated LLDPDU
The MAC address to which the LLDPDU is advertised. It is fixed to 0x0180-
C200-000E, a multicast MAC address.
The MAC address of the sending port. If the port does not have a MAC
address, the MAC address of the sending bridge is used.
The Ethernet type for the upper layer protocol. It is 0x88CC for LLDP.
Frame check sequence, a 32-bit CRC value used to determine the validity of
the received Ethernet frame
2. SNAP-encapsulated LLDPDU format
Figure 55 SNAP-encapsulated LLDPDU format
Data = LLDPU
(n bytes)
0
Destination MAC address
Source MAC address
Type
15 31
FCS
Table 22 Description of the fields in a SNAP-encapsulated LLDPDU
The MAC address to which the LLDPDU is advertised. It is fixed to 0x0180-
C200-000E, a multicast MAC address.
The MAC address of the sending port. If the port does not have a MAC
address, the MAC address of the sending bridge is used.
The SNAP type for the upper layer protocol. It is 0xAAAA-0300-0000-88CC
for LLDP.
Frame check sequence, a 32-bit CRC value used to determine the validity of
the received Ethernet frame
LLDPDUs
LLDP uses LLDPDUs to exchange information. An LLDPDU comprises multiple type, length, and value (TLV)
sequences. Each TLV carries a type of device information, as shown in Figure 56.