Thank you for the clarification.  In looking at various documents, there is
a lot of confusion.  From what you are stating:

Access Port - sent on the VLAN for which interface is configured
Trunk Port - sent on VLAN 1, whether or not VLAN 1 is tagged and whether or
not VLAN 1 is allowed and in a spanning-tree forwarding state for that port

Is that another way of putting it?  That is different than my understanding
has been (where CDP is sent untagged on an access or trunk port - period.)  

I just did a packet capture on an interface connected to a WLC.  That
interface only allows specified VLANs (which don't include VLAN 1) and a
separate native VLAN (which is 999 in this case, which doesn't even exist as
a VLAN on the switch.)  In the packet capture, CDP was tagged with VLAN 999
when coming from the WLC.  Everything else was tagged with the Management
VLAN (no clients currently on the WLC.)

I appreciate your help in working through this, both for understanding as
well as for proper documentation on Cisco's site.


Jason Boyers - CCIE #26024 (Wireless)
Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
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So the docs
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/access_point/12.4_10b_JA/configurat
ion/guide/scg12410b-chap17-cdp.html
say:

"CDP is sent on the lowest VLAN number configured on the access point. 
When more than on VLAN is used in a wireless network, Cisco recommends that
the lowest VLAN number configured be used as the native VLAN"

This is not quite accurate ... here's the *real* story on how WNBU IOS sends
CDP:

     * if the LAN interface is not configured for VLANs (dot1q
subinterfaces), then CDP is always sent untagged of course
     * if the LAN interface is configured for VLANs, then CDP is always sent
in VLAN 1:
           o if VLAN 1 is configured as the native VLAN, then CDP is always
sent in VLAN 1 (i.e. untagged)
           o otherwise - regardless of whether VLAN 1 is explicitly
configured on the AP - CDP is sent tagged in VLAN 1

Pretty simple, really!

References:
CSCef35717    CDP Packets not sent over non-1 Native VLANs

I'll file a doc bug on this.

Cheers,

Aaron
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