* FreeBSD
* GNU/Linux
- * OS X
+ * macOS
* NetBSD
* OpenBSD
* Solaris
Installation
------------
-For general instructions
-[see the website](http://vincentbernat.github.io/lldpd/installation.html).
+For general instructions [prefer the
+website](http://vincentbernat.github.io/lldpd/installation.html),
+including building from released tarballs.
-To compile lldpd from sources, use the following:
+To compile lldpd from Git, use the following commands:
+ ./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
line. If you don't want to run it as root, just install it setuid or
setgid `_lldpd`.
-Installation (OS X)
+Installation (macOS)
-----------------------
-The same procedure as above applies for OS X. However, there are
+The same procedure as above applies for macOS. However, there are
simpler alternatives:
1. Use [Homebrew](https://brew.sh):
# Or, for the latest version:
brew install https://raw.github.com/vincentbernat/lldpd/master/osx/lldpd.rb
- 2. Build an OS X installer package which should work on the same
- version of OS X:
+ 2. Build an macOS installer package which should work on the same
+ version of macOS:
mkdir build && cd build
../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 OS X, you need
+ If you want to compile for an older version of macOS, you need
to find the right SDK and issues commands like those:
SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk
tcpdump -s0 -vv -pni eth0 ether dst 01:80:c2:00:00:0e
+Intel X710 cards may handle LLDP themselves, intercepting any incoming
+packets. If you don't see anything through `tcpdump`, check if you
+have such a card (with `lspci`) and stop the embedded LLDP daemon:
+
+ for f in /sys/kernel/debug/i40e/*/command; do
+ echo lldp stop > $f
+ done
+
License
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