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CDPSnarf is a network sniffer exclusively written to extract information from CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) packets.

            CDPSnarf v0.1.6 Cisco Discovery Protocol Sniffer
                by Tasos "Zapotek" Laskos
                    <[email protected]>
                      <[email protected]>

           Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2

General

CDPSnarf is a network sniffer exclusively written to extract

information from CDP packets. It provides all the information a "show cdp neighbors detail" command would return on a Cisco router and even more.

Features

A feature list follows: o Time intervals between CDP advertisements o Source MAC address o CDP Version o TTL o Checksum o Device ID o Software version o Platform o Addresses o Port ID o Capabilities o Duplex o Save packets in PCAP dump file format o Read packets from PCAP dump files o Debugging information (using the "-d" flag) o Tested with IPv4 and IPv6 [1]

[1] Other protocols will be detected and addresses will be printed in an IPv6 hexadecimal format

Usage

Issue the "make" command to built CDPsnarf from source. Then issue: sudo cdpsnarf -i

More options with: cdpsnarf -h

Requirements

  • PCAP library [http://www.tcpdump.org]
  • GCC

Bug reports/Feature requests

Please send your feedback using GitHub's issue system (http://github.com/Zapotek/cdpsnarf/issues). I will do my best to apply bugfixes and add new features as fast as possible.

License

CDPSnarf is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2. See the file "LICENSE" in the same folder for more informaton.

Disclaimer

CDPSnarf is free software and you are allowed to use it as you see fit. However, I can't be held responsible for your actions or for any damage caused by the use of this software.