About Standalone ELRP

Standalone ELRP gives you the ability to send ELRP packets, either periodically or on an ad hoc “one-shot” basis on a specified subset of VLAN ports. If any of these transmitted packets is received back then standalone ELRP can perform a configured action such as sending a log message to the system log file, sending a trap to the SNMP manager, and disabling the port where the looped packet arrived.

ELRP uses QP8 to send/receive control packets over the network to detect loops, so it is advisable to not use QP8 in for user traffic in the network.

Standalone ELRP allows you to:
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Reception of packets is not limited to any specific ports of the VLAN and cannot be configured.

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Starting with ExtremeXOS 22.2, ELRP works on both static and dynamic VLANs.