a quick survey about LLDP and similar

Fri Mar 1 08:47:23 UTC 2019

A little more on the "it depends"

switches connected to end-user/customer gear: never ever.

switch to switch, switch to router interfaces: yes, to validate cabling 
and resolve problems as quickly as possible.

switch to server interfaces: only to servers of teams you can trust. 
temporarily enable to untrusted teams if you'd need to order remote 
hands to lookup the exact cabling in case of problems.

Thomas

On 2/28/19 10:27 AM, Owen DeLong 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 at 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
> 