interoperating with different makes of routers

[Guest_imported]

Dear friends ,
We know that if we have all Cisco routers in our network we use sh cdp neighbour to identify all the routers in our network. But suppose my network has one Cisco router one cabletron router and one bay router then which command enables me to check all the routers in my network ?please help me!

 

[routerhead]

CDPm is a Cisco proprietary protocol (Cisco Discovery Protocol) and can only be used with cisco devices. I'm not sure if there is anything that can tell you all devices on a network.

 

[tiremd]

Not the quickest solution or as easy as CDP, but one alternative for a network with multi-vendor routers is to telnet to each router (assuming you know the ip address of a port on the router) and then do using console commands to discover info on each piece of gear.... Depends what kind of router info you want....

 

[wybnormal]

SNMP is your friend.. many times the defaults of public and private are there... so get something that walks SNMP..

solarwinds has a network scanner that scans IPs for snmp and gathers the info into a database.

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