So, I've been playing with CDP... everyone does it sooner or later. I'd come across documentation that claims the Brocade ICX-6610 switches that I've got talk CDP- which got me to thinking "Wouldn't that be nice to see from my VMHosts?"
Which got me digging through my switches for configuration docs- sparse at best, however... there's not much to document, especially with all you need to get it running. While trying to get this working I made some discoveries-
VMWare won't display CDP from non-Cisco devices. I have no idea why.
VMWare will output CDP just fine, meaning I can see my hosts from my switch!
To get VMWare to output CDP is pretty straight foward, with my preferred way being
