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Send Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Packets

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module sends Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packets. Note that any responses
to the CDP packets broadcast from this module will need to be analyzed with an
external packet analysis tool, such as tcpdump or Wireshark in order to learn more
about the Cisco switch and router environment.

Author

Fatih Ozavci

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/spoof/cisco/cdp
    msf auxiliary(cdp) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(cdp) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(cdp) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(cdp) > run
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