The lldpad package is an implementation of the Link Layer Discovery Protocol
(LLDP).  It originated from Intel's Data Center Bridging (DCB) software - the
dcbd package.  The lldpad package adds LLDP support for all ports in addition
to DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) support on DCB capable ports (as was provided
by dcbd).  Also, support for additional LLDP TLVs has been added.

DCB is a collection of emerging standards-based technologies designed to allow
Ethernet to support multiple types of traffic classes in the Data Center.
The DCBX functionality of this package is designed to work with the DCB kernel
interface (dcbnl in rtnetlink) that is included in the Linux kernel 2.6.29 or
higher.  The Intel ixgbe driver supports the dcbnl interface.

Files included in this release:
  lldpad-0.9.38.tar.gz - includes source code for lldpad, lldptool and dcbtool.
  lldpad is a an LLDP agent which supports LLDP TLVs for all ports and DCBX
  for DCB capable ports.  lldptool and dcbtool provide LLDP and DCB management
  capabilities.  Changes from lldpad-0.9.32 include:
  - lldpad: increase netlink buffer from 1k to 4k
  - lldpad: fix getopt() parsing to catch invalid options
  - lldpad: fixed stack bug in set_linkmode()
  - lldpad: fix buffer overflow issue in the LLDP-MED SW Revision string
  - lldpad: change LLDP PDUs to use SAN MAC address when it is available instead
		of general MAC address
  - lldpad: fix lldptool to catch options with missing arguments
  - lldpad: update linkmode and operstate handling to enhance the link events
  - lldpad: fix argument handling from lldptool commands which caused a
            segmentation fault
  - lldpad: fix race condition where a dcbtool or lldptool command could fail
            when issued immediately following lldpad starting in daemon mode
  - lldpad: fix link flap which could occur with some DCBX peers when the
            FCoE App TLV was configured differently than the peer
  - lldpad: log a message when lldpad starts and stops
  - lldpad: fix 'status' query of init script when lldpad is not running
  - lldpad: update description of lldpad in the init script
  - lldpad: update DCB configuration information in README to include use of
            VLAN interface egress priority maps
  - lldpad: fix issue where advertise settings of DCBX features could become
            inconsistent with the transmit enable setting of the DCBX TLV
  - lldpad: replace references to 'dcbd' in log and help messages with 'lldpad'
  - lldpad: handle case if lldpad.conf file is removed during lldpad runtime,
            configuration will be restored when a new configuration is made
  - lldpad: use stdbool.h (bool, true, false)
  - lldpad: clean up some of the logging calls to use new macros
  - lldptool: commands of the form 'gettlv' can also be entered as 'get-tlv'
  - dcbtool: add ':' to Oper Version and Max Version output lines to be
            consistent with rest of output