17.2. Cisco Discovery Protocol
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a layer 2 protocol used by Cisco network equipments to
discover other Cisco network equipments present on a link.
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17.3. iperf
The iperf protocol is used by the self-titled tool for network performance measures.
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17.4. Line Control Protocol
LCP is used to establish, configure and test the data-link connection for a PPP link. This protocol
is used to automatically agree upon the encapsulation format options, handle varying limits on
sizes of packets, detect a looped-back link and other common misconfiguration errors, and
terminate the link. This protocol is used to establish, configure and test the data-link connection
for a PPP link.
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17.5. Cisco Netflow
NetFlow is a Cisco protocol that provides nearly real-time traffic monitoring, aggregation and
statistic evaluation, multicriteria data flow selection, using source/destination IP addresses,
protocols, etc.
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