Re: [j-nsp] cdp equivalent

From: Jesper Skriver (jesper@skriver.dk)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 10:02:56 EST


On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:57:40AM -0500, anthracite blond wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Matt Mayes wrote:
> > I have lab environment with several cisco and juniper boxes. Does anyone
> > know if there exists a juniper equivalent of cdp? If so, can you point me
> > to some documentation.
> >
>
> If you're using Sonet links, both Cisco and Juniper devices will transmit
> basic device information (hostname, port name and IP address (Cisco only))
> using the path trace field.
>
> Use "show controller" or "show interfaces extensive."

That is ok - but in my experience CDP is mostly usefull when connecting
to a L2 device, as you cannot rely on L3 addresses to do the mapping of
connected interfaces.

/Jesper

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