Administrator Guide

37 Dell Campus Networking Interoperability with Cisco Catalyst 1.1 | version 1.1
2.9.2 Interoperability with Cisco Discovery Protocol — Cisco Catalyst
The following commands are similar to the Dell N-Series switches with CDP substituted for ISDP. The
following shows CDP is enabled, the neighbors detected and how to verify and enable an interface where
CDP has been disabled.
C6504#show cdp
Global CDP information:
Sending CDP packets every 60 seconds
Sending a holdtime value of 180 seconds
Sending CDPv2 advertisements is enabled
C6504#show cdp neighbors
Capability Codes: R - Router, T - Trans Bridge, B - Source Route Bridge
S - Switch, H - Host, I - IGMP, r - Repeater, P - Phone,
D - Remote, C - CVTA, M - Two-port Mac Relay
Device ID Local Intrfce Holdtme Capability Platform Port ID
N3024-2 Ten 2/3 162 R N3024 Te1/0/1
N3024-1 Ten 2/1 157 R N3024 Te1/0/1
C6504#show cdp interface tenGigabitEthernet 2/1
TenGigabitEthernet2/1 is up, line protocol is up
Encapsulation ARPA
Sending CDP packets every 60 seconds
Holdtime is 180 seconds
C6504#show cdp interface tenGigabitEthernet 2/2
C6504#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
C6504(config)#interface tenGigabitEthernet 2/2
C6504(config-if)#cdp enable
C6504(config-if)#end