Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
This is one of the most useful Layer 2/ layer 3 protocols.
You can discover directly connected neighbors (switches, routers), extremely useful to test point to point links
How to disable CDP globally ?
no cdp run
How to disable CDP per interface ?
int s0/0
no cdp enable
Problems with CDP
Cisco proprietary, so won’t work with other boxed like Nortel. Infact [...]