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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

The Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) sure looks simple enough, but there are quite a few details to know for success on the CCNA exam. In your CCNP studies, you'll be introduced to additional uses for CDP, but for now it's enough to know that CDP is designed to give you information regarding directly connected Cisco routers and switches.

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Thinkpad The basic CDP command to display information about the directly connected neighbor is "show cdp neighbor".

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Microsoft R2#show cdp neighbor

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Device ID Local Intrfce Holdtme Capability Platform Port ID

Notebooks R1 BRI0 167 R 2521 Dialer1

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This command is particularly helpful when troubleshooting Cisco switches. There's no need to trace wiring in a rack of Cisco devices to see what routers are connected to a Cisco switch when show cdp neighbor can be used. In the above output, you can see the remote device's hostname, what interface on the remote device is connected to the local device, the capability of the remote device, the remote device's hardware platform, and the local interface that is connected to the remote device.

Hard Drive CDP can be disabled at both the global and interface level. To disable CDP at the interface level, run no cdp enable on the interface, and cdp enable to turn it back on.

Travelstar cdp timer defines how often CDP packets are transmitted, and cdp holdtime defines how long a device will hold a received packet.

Gateway To turn CDP off for the entire router, run no cdp run. To view the current global status of CDP, run show cdp.

Laptop Parts R2#show cdp

Software Global CDP information:

Hard Drives Sending CDP packets every 60 seconds

Electronics Sending a holdtime value of 180 seconds

Canon
CDP is running by default.

Desktop Pc
R2#conf t

Desktop Computers R2(config)#cdp timer 45

Think Pad R2(config)#cdp holdtime 100

Repair
The CDP timers are changed.

Data Recovery
R2#show cdp

Cisco Global CDP information:

Keyboard Sending CDP packets every 45 seconds

Monitor Sending a holdtime value of 100 seconds

Desktop The CDP values have been successfully changed. "show cdp interface" will give the timer information for each interface on the router.

Infosys R2#conf t

Refurbished Laptops R2(config)#interface bri0

Wipro R2(config-if)#no cdp enable

Lap Top
CDP is disabled on the BRI interface. This does NOT have to be done to keep the line from dialing.

Refurbished
R2#conf t

Memory R2(config)#no cdp run

Intel
CDP is disabled globally.

As400
R2#show cdp

Averatec % CDP is not enabled

Hardware CDP has been successfully disabled.

Dual Xeon Show cdp neighbor gives you a great deal of information, but what if you need the neighbor's IP address? Just run show cdp neighbor detail. You will get even more information about that directly connected neighbor, including its IP address.

Storage SW2#show cdp neighbor detail

Seagate -------------------------

Computer Sales Device ID: R4

Computer Hardware Entry address(es):

Printers IP address: 172.12.23.4

Technology Platform: cisco 2520, Capabilities: Router

Mainframe Interface: FastEthernet0/4, Port ID (outgoing port): Ethernet0

Samsung Holdtime : 158 sec

Computer Repair The details of CDP are important to you on the job and in the CCNA exam room. When you find yourself negotiating a badly documented network, you can use CDP to "walk" through the network and create a network map for your client as well. Sometimes the simplest protocols are the most helpful!

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