CDP support

By default, CDP is enabled on each active switch port. This is a read-only capability, which means the switch can receive and store information about adjacent CDP devices, but does not generate CDP packets (except when communicating with Cisco IP phones.)

The switch supports CDPv2 only and does not support SNMP MIB traps.

When a CDP-enabled port receives a CDP packet from another CDP device, it enters data for that device into the CDP Neighbors table, along with the port number on which the data was received. It does not forward the packet. The switch also periodically purges the table of any entries that have expired. (The holdtime for any data entry in the switch CDP Neighbors table is configured in the device transmitting the CDP packet and cannot be controlled in the switch receiving the packet.) A switch reviews the list of CDP neighbor entries every three seconds and purges any expired entries.

Support for legacy Cisco IP phones

Autoconfiguration of legacy Cisco IP phones for tagged voice VLAN support requires CDPv2.

On initial boot-up, and sometimes periodically, a Cisco phone queries the switch and advertises information about itself using CDPv2. When the switch receives the VoIP VLAN Query TLV (type 0x0f) from the phone, the switch immediately responds with the voice VLAN ID in a reply packet using the VoIP VLAN Reply TLV (type 0x0e). This enables the Cisco phone to boot properly and send traffic on the advertised voice VLAN ID.

The switch CDP packet includes these TLVs: