Using Cisco Discovery Protocol
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a proprietary protocol designed by Cisco to help administrators collect information about both locally attached devices. By using CDP, you can gather hardware and protocol information about neighbor devices, which is useful info for troubleshooting and documenting the network.
In the following sections, I will discuss the CDP timer and CDP commands used to verify your network.
Getting CDP Timers and Holdtime Information
The show cdp command (sh cdp for short) gives you information about two CDP global parameters that can be configured on Cisco devices.
- CDP timer is how often CDP packets are transmitted out all active interfaces.
- CDP holdtime is the amount of time that the device ...
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