Vulnerability Development: Re: Cisco Catalyst switches

[andreas () ANDREAS ORG (andreas () ANDREAS ORG)]

Jeremy Guthrie <guthrie () BERBEE COM> writes:

> > Then there are other games with vendor specific components such as cisco's
> > CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) - again often times in an effort to
> > say: "Hey, I'm another switch - get that in your head and let's start
> > talking".
> This should be turned off.  It is nice in practice, useless in the real world
> for security.
In our setup, multicast won't work unless CDP is enabled. And don't
ask why, Cisco doesn't know either.

Andreas

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