Should EDP be turned off on ports that are connected to access points?

[Darrin_Tingey]

EDP

[Darrin_Tingey]

Thank you. On wireshark what I am seeing is EDP : ELRP. even on a busy access point seems like this is about half of the packets. If I understand correctly this is the Looping protocol?

[Stephane_Grosj1]

Hi,

do not confuse EDP with ELRP.

EDP is Extreme Discovery Protocol, and as the name implies, this is "only" a discovery mechanism. As an AP do not use EDP, there's no need on the switch side to enable it towards APs. Simply enter a "disable edp ports " command to turn it off.

ELRP is Extreme Loop Recovery Protocol, and this feature is intended to protect you from a loop. This feature has some configuration parameters, like exclude, to fine tune it. But this is unrelated to EDP.

Stephane

[Darrin_Tingey]

I asked this question several months ago, however, I have not found the command to disable edp on ap ports and just haven't had a chance to get back to the question. I have found only commands to exclude in the event of a loop?

[Andrew_Imam]

Hi Darrin,
To add to the responses provided, EDP is normally enabled on trunk ports connecting an Extreme switch to another Extreme switch. So if it is not needed/not supported on the access points, it should be turned off on the ports connecting to the access points. As an alternative, LLDP can be used/enabled if needed and the APs are capable of supporting it.

[Henrique]

Hi Darrin, since the AP won't exchange EDP packets, you should disable that on AP connected ports.

You should keep EDP enabled only if you have uplinks to devices that support EDP.

You can use LLDP instead of EDP.