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Using Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a proprietary protocol designed by Cisco to help administrators
collect information about both locally attached and remote devices. By using CDP, you
can gather hardware and protocol information about neighbor devices, which is useful info for
troubleshooting and documenting the 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 will hold packets received from
neighbor devices.
Both Cisco routers and Cisco switches use the same parameters.
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