[aur-general] no LLDP tools in [extra] or [community] :-/

Sébastien Luttringer seblu at seblu.net
Mon Aug 4 11:31:20 EDT 2014


On 23/07/2014 23:35, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> On 23/07/2014 15:59, Ido Rosen wrote:
>> There's a PKGBUILD for ladvd and lldpd in AUR currently, these are
>> important networking tools in data center environments.  Can someone
>> please promote at least one of them to [community] or ideally [extra]?
>>  They're not high on votes, but I think this should be an exception
>> since not many people are using Arch in data center environments
>> anyhow that would need them and would thus vote on them.  They both
>> implement LLDP daemons.
>>
> I agree. I will move them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
lldpd is now in community.

Looking deeper in lldp servers/agents capabilities, I came to the
conclusion that including ladvd seems unnecessary.

With this in mind:
http://www.kempgen.net/voip/lldp-agents.html

ladvd has no release since Feb 2012 and less features than lldpd.

Cheers,

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Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
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