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3Link Layer Discovery Protocol
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10Overview
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13The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer
14protocol used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities,
15and neighbors on a wired Ethernet network.
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17For more information, see this
18`LLDP Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol>`_.
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20API Reference
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23.. doxygengroup:: lldp
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