Well that make sense. I disable CDP for security reasons, but in a large environment like that I guess it would make sense. What if you had a 65xx, wouldn't the CDP table be HUGE?, if not cause a problem? Just a thought.
Thanks for your comment Chris Serafin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dale Shaw wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On 6/19/07, ChrisSerafin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Excuse my ignorance, but why would you want to use CDP on >> servers/workstations? > > For us it's mainly to assist with troubleshooting and auditing. It's a > large government environment with what seems like almost constant > office relocations. > > The network operations folks are in a different city to us > design/planning guys. We use third party "hands and feet" to perform > relocations and sometimes it's just too hard to figure out which of > the (3) network interfaces in the probes are connected to which switch > port - sometimes port descriptions aren't accurate and MAC information > is not at hand. > > Having the probe (or any host) spew out CDP advertisements eases the > headache when you're troubleshooting something remotely at 2 o'clock > in the morning :-) > >> Chris Serafin > > cheers, > Dale > > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
