3: CDP
Configuring VLAN and CDP on a GW Series Router
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broadcast.
Option
Description
Minimum
value
0
Default
value
180
Maximum
value
65535
Units
Secs
live =180
Broadcast Interval
Defines broadcast interval in
seconds.
Option
Description
Minimum
value
1
Default
value
60
Maximum
value
65535
Units
Secs
Set cdp Server
Broadcast Interval
Table 5: The CDP server fields, descriptions and their command lines
The critical setting is number Voice VLAN Id. This specifies the VLAN tag to offer as part
of the CDP broadcast. Any host acting as a CDP client will use this tag.
3.2
CDP flows
The table below describers the flow and mapping between CDP and DHCP.
Figure 8: Flow and mapping between CDP and DHCP
3.3
Debugging CDP
3.3.1
Tracing using the command line
Tracing via the command line is more flexible than using the trace analyser as you can
specify the event severity and use the all class event to trace all event classes.