Re: a quick survey about LLDP and similar

[Eddie Parra <eparra () zscaler com>]

+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