Chapter 9: Administration: Discovery; Bonjour - Cisco 350XG series Administration Manual

Administration: Discovery

Bonjour

Cisco 350XG & 550XG Series 10G Stackable Managed Switches
This section provides information for configuring Discovery.
It covers the following topics:
• Bonjour
• LLDP and CDP
• Configuring LLDP
• Configuring CDP
• CDP Statistics
As a Bonjour client, the device periodically broadcasts Bonjour Discovery protocol
packets to directly-connected IP subnet(s), advertising its existence and the
services that it provides; for example, HTTP, HTTPs, and Telnet. (Use the
Services page to enable or disable the device services.) The device can be
discovered by a network management system or other third-party applications.
By default, Bonjour is enabled on the Management VLAN.
When Bonjour is enabled on the device, it sends Bonjour Discovery packets to
interfaces with IP addresses that have been associated with Bonjour on the
Bonjour Discovery Interface Control table. Use to
address to an interface.
If an interface, such as a VLAN, is deleted, the device will send out Bonjour
Goodbye packets to the interface to deregister itself and its services. Neighbor
devices receiving the Goodbye packets will delete the services from their local
service tables. The Bonjour Discovery Interface Control Table shows interfaces
with IP addresses that are associated with the Bonjour feature. Any Bonjour
advertisement can only be broadcast to interfaces listed in this table. If a service is
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