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CDPSnarf is a network sniffer exclusively written to extract information from CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) packets.
https://github.com/zapotek/cdpsnarf

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CDPSnarf is a network sniffer exclusively written to extract information from CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) packets.

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CDPSnarf v0.1.6 Cisco Discovery Protocol Sniffer
by Tasos "Zapotek" Laskos

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2

General
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CDPSnarf is a network sniffer exclusively written to extract
information from CDP packets.
It provides all the information a "show cdp neighbors detail"
command would return on a Cisco router and even more.

Features
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A feature list follows:
o Time intervals between CDP advertisements
o Source MAC address
o CDP Version
o TTL
o Checksum
o Device ID
o Software version
o Platform
o Addresses
o Port ID
o Capabilities
o Duplex
o Save packets in PCAP dump file format
o Read packets from PCAP dump files
o Debugging information (using the "-d" flag)
o Tested with IPv4 and IPv6 [1]

[1] Other protocols will be detected and addresses will be printed in an
IPv6 hexadecimal format

Usage
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Issue the "make" command to built CDPsnarf from source.
Then issue:
sudo cdpsnarf -i

More options with:
cdpsnarf -h

Requirements
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* PCAP library [http://www.tcpdump.org]
* GCC

Bug reports/Feature requests
-------------------------------
Please send your feedback using GitHub's issue system (http://github.com/Zapotek/cdpsnarf/issues).
I will do my best to apply bugfixes and add new features as fast as possible.

License
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CDPSnarf is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
See the file "LICENSE" in the same folder for more informaton.

Disclaimer
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CDPSnarf is free software and you are allowed to use it as you see fit.
However, I can't be held responsible for your actions or for any damage
caused by the use of this software.