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Link Layer Discovery Protocol
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Overview
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The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer
protocol used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities,
and neighbors on a wired Ethernet network.

For more information, see this
`LLDP Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol>`_.

API Reference
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