Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> > wrote: ... >> -You want to query network information > > In particular, I want to be able to use protocols that are already > present on my network. That is, EIGRP, CDP, LLDP, etc. can be helpful > protocols to understand network topology. >
I haven't looked deeply at those protocols' details, but I would be concerned in some cases about determinism of results. Dynamic discovery of network topology based on passive listening can be fairly unreliable in my experience, and having flakiness of network infrastructure turn into unanticipated deployment results seems like a bad path to head down. Dave
