CDP is a great help when dealing with Open View's auto discovery. You know-
that router you did not authorize & that did not exist yesterday. One of my
contracts is in a Cisco equipped government shop & we have a lot of GSxx
cowboys, who like to place new routers out on the Enterprise network. It's
great thing to have the ability to rub up against it's directly connected
neighbor & maybe even turn on a little interface debug. In these cases, I
can learn more about a router than I normally would with the enable
password.
Cisco is trying for an RFC on this one too...
.02
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "EH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: What can CDP offer ?
> Sure, Telnet will give you all the info (and more) you can get from
> CDP. But imagine having access or knowledge of only one router or
> switch. How would you know what is on "the other side" to telnet to, not
> to mention their IP address?
>
> CDP will tell you info of live devices you may not know existed on "the
> other side". If you know your whole network, CDP may have limited value to
> you. The bandwidth you gain by disabling it may not be worth the benefit
> CDP offers.
>
> My 2 cents worth.
>
> -Eddie
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: CCIE TB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 8:25 PM
> > > Subject: What can CDP offer ?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi group members,
> > > >
> > > > I'm just wondering...if you can access a router by telneting to it,
you
> > > can
> > > > get most of the information that you will get through CDP. Then what
is
> > > the
> > > > benefit of CDP?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to all
> > > >
> > > > Adia
> > > >
> > >
> >
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