VLAN Issues - Need CDP/LLDP Infos

[Nerdbert]

Hi guys,

i am reading this forum since around a week and it made my transition from cisco to alcatel alot easier. I was working for a large cisco partner and am now working for an alcatel partner.

At the moment I am facing the problem, where i would love to have CDP and other stuff to solve.

First of all, the network I am actually working on isnt well documented. We are using avaya phones on alcatel network equipment.

Now I have to find out on what switch my PC/PHone is connectet to. On Cisco i would log on the core switch and look my mac address up via ARP/CAM table/CDP.
WHat i tried was logging on the core switch and checking what Port my mac address is bound to. But i dont get any lldp information about that port by doing "show lldp remote-system". How can i figure out the management IP of the next Switch? I was already looking for a way to ping out of an interface instead of pinging an ip address, but unfortunaly i didnt find out how this works using alcatel os.

Any help is highly appreciated!

Regards,

nerdbert

[silvio]

Hi,
maybe lldp is disabled or your software isn't the right one (lldp support starts with 6.3.4 or so).
you can check with > show lldp config or show lldp local-system.
but the neighbor switch has to send the wished infos. For enabling all features you can use:

lldp chassis tlv management port-description enable system-name enable system-description enable system-capabilities enable
lldp chassis tlv management management-address enable
lldp chassis tlv dot1 vlan-name enable port-vlan enable
lldp chassis tlv dot3 mac-phy enable

than this send all this infos to its neighbor and with > show lldp remote-system you will get a lot of more infos.

At AOS switches (R6 but not R7) you have also the own protocoll AMAP (similar to CDP). You can see your neigbors with >show amap.

regards
Silvio

[Nerdbert]

Ah perfect, show amap helped. Thanks big time!