Hi,
WHO MAY BE AFFECTED: people, who installed "ladvd" voluntarily. It is not
installed by default.
WHAT IS LADVD: it is a small daemon, using low-level ethernet mechanisms to
learn how switches are connected. It implements CDP protocol, LLDP protocol
and few others. By default it sends announcement only for protocols it already
heard (this way it does not generate CDP traffic if you don't have Cisco switch).
WHAT'VE CHANGED: there's a feature called ifAlias in Linux network stack, giving
ability to append free-form description to interface. In ladvd-1.0.0, this field
is filled with name and port number of upstream switch, where our server is
connected. It looks like that in "ip" output:
2: p2p1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
alias connected to PROCURVE J9450A (13)
ifAlias is not widely used on Linux. I only heard about Quagga doing something
with it.
WHAT TO EXPECT: nothing should break because of ifAlias. But if something
goes wrong, let me wrong, I will flip default switch to off in our unit file.
Thanks,
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