Users Guide

Table Of Contents
Discovering Network Devices 913
22
Discovering Network Devices
Dell EMC Networking N-Series Switches
This chapter describes the Industry Standard Discovery Protocol (ISDP)
feature and the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) feature, including
LLDP for Media Endpoint Devices (LLDP-MED).
The topics covered in this chapter include:
Device Discovery Overview
Default IDSP and LLDP Values
Default IPDT Values
Configuring ISDP and LLDP (CLI)
Device Discovery Configuration Examples
Device Discovery Overview
The switch software includes support for several device discovery protocols:
ISDP, IPDT, and LLDP. These protocols allow the switch to broadcast
information about itself and to learn information about neighboring devices.
What Is ISDP?
The Industry Standard Discovery Protocol (ISDP) is a proprietary Layer-2
network protocol that inter-operates with Cisco devices running the Cisco
Discovery Protocol (CDP). ISDP is used to share information between
neighboring devices. The switch software participates in the CDP protocol
and is able to both discover and be discovered by other CDP-supporting
devices.
What is IPDT?
IP Device Tracking maintains a list of attached hosts IPv4 address and MAC
bindings. IPDT does not track IPv6 hosts. IPDT obtains information about
attached devices from the DHCP snooping bindings table and by snooping