* FreeBSD
* GNU/Linux
- * Mac OS X
+ * OS X
* NetBSD
* OpenBSD
* Solaris
+Windows is not supported but you can use
+[WinLLDPService](https://github.com/raspi/WinLLDPService/) as a
+transmit-only agent.
+
Installation
------------
line. If you don't want to run it as root, just install it setuid or
setgid `_lldpd`.
-Installation (Mac OS X)
+Installation (OS X)
-----------------------
-The same procedure as above applies for Mac OS X. However, there are
+The same procedure as above applies for OS X. However, there are
simpler alternatives:
- 1. Use [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/):
+ 1. Use [Homebrew](https://brew.sh):
brew install lldpd
# Or, for the latest version:
brew install https://raw.github.com/vincentbernat/lldpd/master/osx/lldpd.rb
- 2. Build an OSX installer package which should work on the same
- version of OS X (it is important to use a separate build
- directory):
+ 2. Build an OS X installer package which should work on the same
+ version of OS X:
mkdir build && cd build
- ../configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-embedded-libevent \
- --without-json --without-snmp
- make -C osx pkg ARCHS="i386 x86_64"
+ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-embedded-libevent \
+ --without-snmp
+ make -C osx pkg
- If you want to compile for an older version of Mac OS X, you need
+ If you want to compile for an older version of OS X, you need
to find the right SDK and issues commands like those:
SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk
mkdir build && cd build
- ../configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-embedded-libevent \
- --without-json --without-snmp \
+ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-embedded-libevent \
+ --without-snmp \
CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -isysroot $SDK" \
LDFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -isysroot $SDK"
- make -C osx pkg ARCHS="i386 x86_64"
+ make -C osx pkg
+
+ With recent SDK, you don't need to specify an alternate SDK. They
+ are organized in a way that should enable compatibility with older
+ versions of OSX:
+
+ mkdir build && cd build
+ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-embedded-libevent \
+ --without-snmp \
+ CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.9" \
+ LDFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.9"
+ make -C osx pkg
+
+ You can check with `otool -l` that you got what you expected in
+ term of supported versions.
If you don't follow the above procedures, you will have to create the
user/group `_lldpd`. Have a look at how this is done in
through EDP/CDP/FDP/SONMP are integrated with other informations and
can be queried with `lldpcli` or through SNMP.
+More information:
+ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol
+ * http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1AB-2005.pdf
+ * http://wiki.wireshark.org/LinkLayerDiscoveryProtocol
+
+Compatibility with older kernels
+--------------------------------
+
+If you have a kernel older than Linux 2.6.39, you need to compile
+lldpd with `--enable-oldies` to enable some compatibility functions:
+otherwise, lldpd will only rely on Netlink to receive bridge, bond and
+VLAN information.
+
For bonding, you need 2.6.24 (in previous version, PACKET_ORIGDEV
affected only non multicast packets). See:
* http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8032b46489e50ef8f3992159abd0349b5b8e476c
Otherwise, a packet received on a bond will be affected to all
-interfaces of the bond.
+interfaces of the bond. In this case, lldpd will affect a received
+randomly to one of the interface (so a neighbor may be affected to the
+wrong interface).
-On 2.6.27, we are able to receive packets on real interface for bonded
+On 2.6.27, we are able to receive packets on real interface for enslaved
devices. This allows one to get neighbor information on active/backup
bonds. Without the 2.6.27, lldpd won't receive any information on
inactive slaves. Here are the patchs (thanks to Joe Eykholt):
* http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=138620
-Some devices (notably Cisco IOS) send frames on tagged with the native
+Some devices (notably Cisco IOS) send frames tagged with the native
VLAN while they should send them untagged. If your network card does
not support accelerated VLAN, you will receive those frames as long as
the corresponding interface exists (see below). However, if your
On modern networks, the performance impact should be nonexistent.
-More information:
- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol
- * http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1AB-2005.pdf
- * http://wiki.wireshark.org/LinkLayerDiscoveryProtocol
-
Development
-----------
mv *.pcap inputs
afl-fuzz -i inputs -o outputs ./decode @@
+There is a general test suite with `make check`. It's also possible to
+run integration tests. They need [py.test](http://pytest.org/latest/)
+and rely on Linux containers to be executed.
+
+To enable code coverage, use:
+
+ ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
+ --enable-sanitizers --enable-gcov --with-snmp \
+ CFLAGS="-O0 -g"
+ make
+ make check
+ # maybe, run integration tests
+ lcov --base-directory $PWD/src/lib \
+ --directory src --capture --output-file gcov.info
+ genhtml gcov.info --output-directory coverage
+
Embedding
---------
Also, `lldpcli` will be linked to GNU Readline (which is GPL licensed)
if available. To avoid this, use `--without-readline` as a configure
option.
-
-libnl is LGPL licensed. To avoid any licensing issue, be sure to use
-dynamic linking (`--with-embedded-libnl=no`). If you use static
-linking, ensure that you understand the license implication of LGPL.
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