North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Warning, CDP interaction at Mae-EAST
> WARNING: > > Executing show cdp neighbors detail may crash your Cisco at Mae-EAST. I > noticed this earlier today while I was browsing, but believed I had some > sort of strange interaction with my rev of IOS until this happened to > someone else running a completely different code stream. > > There is apparently a device there spewing broken cdp information. The > Cisco engineer working on this case hasn't heard of this problem before, > but if I gather anymore useful information I'll certainly pass it along. > > -Golan > > Why on EARTH?!? would _ANYONE_ run CDP at a MAE or any other exchange point? Especially given the congestion, and other problems at the MAE's, why run a protocol to discover other Cisco's you have to explicitly configure peering sessions with anyway? If someone can explain a reason not to turn off CDP at an exchange point, I'm all ears. Owen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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