What is CDP in router configuration?
What is CDP in router configuration?

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CDP is Cisco Discovery Protocol, a proprietary protocol from Cisco spoken and understood by all Cisco devices. It's a Layer 2 protocol and used to check the availability of neighboring Cisco devices. It can give you all the details of the neighbors.

This was first published in February 2005