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Discovery Protocols on Cisco, HP, and Force10 Switches/Routers – CDP and LLDP

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Humair

The Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a Cisco proprietary Data Link Layer network protocol used to share information about other directly connected Cisco equipment. CDP can also be used in place of dynamic routing protocols in simple networks. Cisco devices … Continue reading →

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