CDP stands for "Cisco Discovery Protocol". It is Cisco's protocol at layer 2, used for facilitating discovery of nearby devices as well as advertising routing information.
Questions tagged [cdp]
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Laptop Backup Software (Corporate)?
I wondered if any of you who have a fleet of laptops are using anything to back them up, and if so what?
In particular I'm looking for a solution that is totally hands-off once installed i.e. the user doesn't have to do anything, press anything,…
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Backup solution to backup terabytes and lots of static files on linux server?
Which backup tool or solution would you use to backup terabytes and lots of files on a production linux server ?
Note that the files are all different and almost never modified, and usage is mostly adding files, so data volume is today 3TB growing…
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Is there a "show cdp neighbors" type command for Cisco ASA devices?
I have been working on a project to map out my organization's network infrastructure. For the networking devices (we are a Cisco shop) I have been running the show cdp neighbors command to see how everything is connected and through which…
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Linux server equivalent of Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)?
I am wondering if there are any Linux tools out there which might aid in identification of hosts directly connected to each other (much like Cisco Discovery Protocol on switches)?
I have found http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcdpd/ which searching.…
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Continuous Backup Software for Windows 2003 Server
I am looking for a software package that does continuous data backup of file shares on a single server. Backup location would be a NAS over a VPN tunnel. File Versioning is a must. Any recommendations? Thanks.
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Cisco SPA504G phone CDP/LLDP issue
Good morning everyone,
Just recently signed up for the site because I'm looking for some help with an issue that's been plaguing me for about a week now. I hope I'm posting in the right place. If not, then my apologies. Anyways, on to the…
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Cisco Switches - find parent/uplink via SNMP
Does anyone have any ideas on mapping out a Cisco-based network via SNMP? I have SNMP access to all of the switches (obviously), and a list of all of the hostnames. From this, I need to be able to build out a network map (or at least find which…
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Continuous data protection in a datacentre
2 1u servers in a datacentre, 1 pc in an office for offsite backup.
was wondering the best way to backup data onsite for one of those 2 servers (the other ones data isnt as important)
the backups would need to be as close to real time as…
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R1Soft CDP2 disk safe - make previous disk safe be active
Hoping that someone will be able to dust off some ancient R1Soft CDP2 knowledge on this =).
How can you make a previous disk safe active so that backups can be made to it again? For example, if a new disk safe was created, then deleted, how can…
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CISCO port tracing by LED light blinking
I work as IT technician,part of my job I have to trace the UTP cable to the switch port, I used for the a program called WinCDP by connecting to my laptop Ethernet port and it will tell me where is the port connected in the switch.the problem we…
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osama al banna
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Cisco Discovery Protoocl and SNMP
I'm a bit confused about how SNMP can be used to discover network topology based on the CDP packets it receives from Cisco devices.
Say the network consists only of Cisco equipment. My understanding is that CDP is sent by the device only to directly…
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Rayne
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Getting L2 switch info from the data port on a Cisco IP phone?
Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm trying to get the information on which switch/port that a jack wired to. On that jack, there is a Cisco IP phone (7942), and a computer plugged into its data port.
When I look at the CDP packets from the computer…
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Find different switches from cdp output
I have three cisco switches, all with CDP enabled. From the console of the "core" switch I give the command "show cdp neighbors" and the output is:
Capability Codes: R - Router, T - Trans Bridge, B - Source Route Bridge
S -…
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MySQL hot backups on database inside a Virtuozzo container
R1soft's CDP doesn't currently work on MySQL databases inside a Virtuozzo container.
Is there any backup software that offers the same kind of 'continuous data protection'?
An alternative to this would be a host that provided just MySQL hosting with…
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Huge Server: Backing Up Many TB of Data with Instant Failover?
We have a very challenging system to back up:
1. We have 20 TB of data right now.
2. Each month we get another 3 TB of data, and about 5 TB of data changes each month.
3. We are currently a Windows-based shop and use DELL MD1000 systems.
We want…