Chapter 10 - Troubleshooting Ethernet LANs Flashcards
What is CDP?
Cisco Discovery Protocol - Discovers basic information about neighboring routers and switches without needing to know the passwords for the neighboring devices.
What are 5 things you can learn about other Cisco devices through CDP?
1) Device identifier - The host name.
2) Address list - Network and data link addresses
3) Port identifier - The interface on the router or switch that sent the CDP advertisement
4) Capabilities list - What type of device it is (router or switch)
5) Platform - The model and OS level running on the device
What are the 3 show CDP commands that list information about neighbors?
1) show cdp neighbors - lists one summary line of information about each neighbor
2) Show cdp neighbors detail - lists one large set ( approximately 15 lines) of information, one set for every neighbor
3) show cdp entry {name} - lists the same information as the show cdp neighbors detail except only for the named neighbor
Cisco recommends that CDP be enabled on what ports connected to what types of devices?
For switches, any ports connected to another switch, a router, or to an IP phone.
What command would disable/enable CDP on an interface?
no cdp enable or cdp enable
What command would disable/enable CDP globally?
no cdp run or cdp run
What are 3 commands you could use to verify CDP operations?
1) show cdp - states whether CDP is enabled globally
2) show cdp interface - states whether CDP is enabled on an interface
3) show cdp traffic - lists global statistics for the # of CDP advertisements sent and received
What’s typically the root cause if the line status is administratively down and the protocol status is down, and the interface status is disabled?
The interface is configured with the shutdown command.
What’s typically the root cause if the line status is down and the protocol status is down, and the interface status is notconnect?
No cable; bad cable; wrong cable pinouts; the speeds are mismatched on the two connected devices; the device on the other end of the cable is (a) powered off, (b) shutdown, or (c) error disabled.
What’s typically the root cause if the line status up and the protocol status is down, and the interface status is notconnect?
An interface up/down state is not expected on LAN switch physical interfaces.
What’s typically the root cause if the line status is down and the protocol status is down (err-disabled), and the interface status is err-disabled?
Port security has disabled the interface.
What’s typically the root cause if the line status up and the protocol status is up, and the interface status is connected?
The interface is working.
Which 2 commands list both the actual speed and duplex settings on an interface?
show interfaces and show interfaces status commands
Which command actually shows how the switch determined the speed and duplex settings?
show interfaces status command
During autonegotiation, if the speed is not known through any means, what speed and duplex settings are used?
Speed at 10 Mbps, half-duplex