+1 on it depends. IMO, I would prefer LLDP vs. a vendor proprietary discovery protocol. Where you intend to run it in your network is a major factor for risk. Also, you forgot to add LLDP-MED to #5 (but it might not be relevant to your services). -Eddie
On Feb 28, 2019, at 1:27 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
The problem with your survey is that there’s no option to answer “it depends”.
Hard yes or no answers aren’t realistic to the questions you’re asking because the context, security parameters, sensitivity, and other parameters about the network all factor into a decision whether to run or not run such protocols.
There are some environments where the benefit and convenience is moderately high and the risk is extremely low. There are other environments where the benefit is relatively low, but the risks are significantly higher.
Owen
On Feb 28, 2019, at 01:00 , Pierfrancesco Caci <pf@tippete.net> wrote:
Hello, having a bit of a debate in my team about turning on LLDP and/or CDP. I would appreciate if you could spend a minute answering this survey so I have some numbers to back up my reasoning, or to accept defeat.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TH3WCWP
Feel free to cross-post to other relevant lists.
Thank you
Pf
-- Pierfrancesco Caci, ik5pvx