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023 CDP Study Notes

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a proprietary Layer 2 protocol used to discover information about directly connected Cisco devices, including device type and IP address. CDP is enabled by default on Cisco devices and can be configured using specific commands. Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) serves as an open standard alternative to CDP for network discovery in multi-vendor environments, with its own set of commands for configuration.

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023 CDP Study Notes

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a proprietary Layer 2 protocol used to discover information about directly connected Cisco devices, including device type and IP address. CDP is enabled by default on Cisco devices and can be configured using specific commands. Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) serves as an open standard alternative to CDP for network discovery in multi-vendor environments, with its own set of commands for configuration.

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Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)


CDP is a Layer 2 Cisco proprietary neighbor discovery protocol. The purpose of
CDP is to discover operational and configuration information of directly connected
Cisco devices. Specific information includes device type, IP address, IOS version
and interface. CDP protocol sends multicast packets using reserved MAC address
0100:0ccc:cccc to all neighbors at fixed intervals shown with Figure 1. Layer 2
connectivity to neighbor devices is confirmed as well.

CDP detects and relays device information to neighbor devices. Cisco CDP can
only detect Cisco devices including IP phones. The Cisco IP phone appears to CDP
as a unique neighbor device with an IP address. During bootup, the IP phone
receives voice VLAN configuration from the access switch.

There is an SNMP agent with a defined CDP MIB that allows monitoring software to
query devices for information. CDP must be running on switches that have a Cisco
IP Phone connected for configuration purposes.

Figure 1 CDP Multicasting Packets

CDP Multicast
Packets

Configure CDP
CDP is enabled on Cisco devices globally by default including network interfaces.
The following command re-enables CDP globally after it has been disabled.
switch(config)# cdp run

The following interface level command re-enables CDP on a specific network


interface after it has been disabled.
switch(config-if)# cdp enable

There is additional neighbor configuration information available with the detail


keyword used with show cdp neighbor IOS command. The detail keyword
includes IOS version of connected neighbors.

switch# show cdp neighbor detail

CDP is enabled by default both globally and on all network interfaces and the
default CDP update timer = 60 seconds.
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Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)


LLDP is the open standard counterpart to Cisco CDP for network discovery in a
multi-vendor environment. Cisco supports LLDP (IEEE 802.1ab) and thereby
optimizing auto-discovery and network management. The network devices share
identity and feature support functionality via LLDP and with neighbors.

 The default packet update interval for LLDP is 30 seconds. Network devices
with LLDP advertise default TLV attributes of chassis ID, port ID and TTL.

 LLDP is an open standard network discovery protocol specified with IEEE


802.1ab standard.

 Cisco IP phones are enabled for LLDP when LLDP packets are first sent
from the phone to the switch.

The following global configuration command enables LLDP globally on a switch.

switch(config)# lldp run

The following IOS interface level command enables a Cisco switch to receive LLDP
packets on an interface.

switch(config-if)# lldp receive

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