Re: [netdisco-devel] Brainstorming about topology discovery

[Alexander B. <ale...@s1...>]

Quoting Carlos Vicente <cvi...@ne...>:

Hi Carlos,

> In addition to the CDP, LLDP and STP sources I'm planning on adding
> forwarding table analysis.  I've already written some code that does
> this with relatively good accuracy, depending on how well populated the
> tables are.

I've some evaluation on different vendor independent topology discovery 
some time ago.

http://archiv.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/2005/0045/data/index.html

As fas as I can remember using forwarding tables is possible, but it's 
quite complex to keep information up to date.

I would say you have to decide wether it's worth or necessary to 
implement this source of topology.

Bye
Alex