lldp(8)

lldp8

Control the lldpd agent

Usage

lldp [-v] [-i interface] [-s socket]

Overview

The lldp program communicates with the lldpd(8) Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) agent to fetch and display LLDP entries received by the agent.

The options are as follows:

-i interface

Limit the LLDP entries to those received on the specified interface.

-s socket

Use socket to communicate with lldpd(8).

-v

Increase the verbosity of output.

Files

/var/run/lldp.sock

default lldpd(8) control socket

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since OpenBSD 7.8.

  1. 7.8–8.0

History

The lldp program first appeared in OpenBSD 7.8.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.