Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] CDP and Etherloop

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From: "Hannes R. Boehm" <hannes@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:43:10 +0100
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:55:00PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > CDP detection (no disassembling (yet) - does someone know where to
> > get the spec?)
> 
> which suggests, given the "Internal" in "Internal Cisco Document", that
> CDP is Another Damn Proprietary Cisco Protocol.  The protocol mentioned

Maybe CDP is The Cisco Damn Proprietary protocol :)

BTW: I found a newer version of Physical Toplogy Discovery Protocol:

There are some similarities between those two drafts and the CDP.
Fortunatly I have many differnt ciscos to play with (1600, 2500, 2600, 2820, 2900, 
3600, 4000, 4700, 5200, 7200)

CU

 Hannes