RE: [Trinux-talk] cdpdump

[Mike P. <MPi...@lg...>]

Hmmm...I'm very familiar with CDP....use it on our LAN all the time
with an infrastructure of Cisco switches, routers, WAPs, & IP phones.
But I'm a curious why you say it would make running a bunch of headless
Trinux boxes easier.  I should just read up on exacly what cdpdumd
actually does, but could you give me a brief explanation of what makes
it easier?  Can you configure cdpdump to give CDP type information
about Trinux boxes to Cisco devices (i.e., if I have a Trinux box 
directly connected to a Cisco switch, chould I run "show cdp neighbor"
and get info about that Trinux box, such as IP address?)

Thanks, Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Franz [mailto:mf...@ci...]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:10 PM
To: Sistemas - Industrial Taylor Ltda.
Cc: Trinux-Talk
Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] cdpdump


Yes. Is the wonderful/not-so-wonderful (depending on your perspective)
protocol used by Cisco devices to exchange information with each other.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/tk100/tech_protocol_home.html

If you are running a bunch of headless Trinux boxes, it makes life
easier.

- mdf

> 
> Keeping on this thread, it may be related to the CDP implementation, as
> I find the following line in dmesg :
> cdp uses obsolete (PF_INET, SOCK_PACKET) .
> I have no knowledge of CDP, a google search refers to Cisco Discovery
> Protocol, is this it ?
> 
> David Ramirez
> Colombia
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