Do not try to set media type network policy since its usefulness is

near zero when not being able to set it differently on each port.
Those kind of information should be set through SNMP.

diff --git a/man/lldpd.8 b/man/lldpd.8
index d2cad2a767db93622a0d40038a42b90745e86953..32716e68cd21007c9e7c69d0d1d3963062e2bd8c 100644 (file)
--- a/man/lldpd.8
+++ b/man/lldpd.8
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 .Op Fl p Ar probe time
 .Op Fl M Ar class
 .Op Fl L Ar location
-.Op Fl P Ar policy
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Nm
 is a daemon able to receive and send
@@ -209,6 +208,13 @@ where the first digit should be
 .Ar 3
 and the second argument is the ELIN number.
 .El
+.Pp
+Locations set using this option are set for all ports. There is
+currently no way to affect different locations to different
+ports. Using this TLV, network connectivity devices usually advertise
+the location of a class III device. Since it is unlikely that all
+devices are in the same location, the location TLV should be different
+for each port. This is not possible actually.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width "/var/run/lldpd.socketXX" -compact
 .It /var/run/lldpd.socket

diff --git a/src/lldpd.c b/src/lldpd.c
index 2cc3bd6c74578bf24287b8fff78534c9228955e9..44d9b7267e10686a34bbcb51d1bdbc5ab8c64f3e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lldpd.c
+++ b/src/lldpd.c
@@ -1584,7 +1584,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
        int snmp = 0;
 #endif
        char *mgmtp = NULL;
-       char *popt, opts[] = "vdxm:p:M:iL:P:@                    ";
+       char *popt, opts[] = "vdxm:p:M:iL:@                    ";
        int probe = 0, i, found, vlan = 0;
 #ifdef ENABLE_LLDPMED
        int lldpmed = 0, noinventory = 0;
@@ -1624,7 +1624,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
                        noinventory = 1;
                        break;
                case 'L':
-               case 'P':
                        /* Handled later */
                        break;
 #else
@@ -1714,8 +1713,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
                        case 'L':
                                lldpd_parse_location(&cfg->g_lchassis, optarg);
                                break;
-                       case 'P':
-                               break;
                        }
                }
        }