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title: "Viewing Layer 2 Neighbors"
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The **Neighbors** page (**Device** **Viewer** > **Device/Network** **Explorer** > **Neighbors)** lists devices that NetMRI determines to be adjacent to the device at Level 2. This feature does not describe neighboring devices at Level 3.

Layer 2 neighbors can report a substantial body of information. Typically, only the **VLAN** **ID**, **VLAN** **Name**, **Neighbor** (in its resolved DNS name), and the **Neighbor** **Interface** ID are reported. You can display many more data columns, including (but not limited to) the following:

- **VRF** **Name:** The listed name of the local interface's VRF network, if applicable.
- **Neighbor** **VRF** **Name:** The listed name of the neighboring interface's VRF, if applicable.
- **Neighbor** **Network** **View: **The listed name of the neighboring device's network view, if the device is in a different network view.
- **Network** **View:** The network view to which the device belongs.
- **Root** **Bridge** **Address:** This is the MAC address ID of the root bridge in the spanning tree.
- **Interface** **MAC** and **Neighbor** **MAC:** These are MAC addresses of the listed local and neighboring interfaces.
- **Neighbor** **Type:** These are typically Switch or Switch-Router in NetMRI.
- **Device** **Assurance**: The probability that NetMRI has correctly identified the type of a given device.
- **Ifindex:** The local interface index value into the SNMP table (ifTable).
- **Interface** **Type:** Typically appears as **ethernet-csmacd** on switched-Ethernet networks.
- **Neighbor** **Location:** A plain-language notation of the physical location of the device associated with the neighboring interface.
- **Neighbor** **ifindex:** The index value into the SNMP table (ifTable) that the L2 neighbor is associated with.