Mixed Cisco/Avaya phones - CDP - issues?

[gwebster]

Does anybody have a mixed environment of Cisco and Avaya IP phones and also have Cisco CDP enabled. Does this cause any issues with the Avaya IP phones?

 

[dialtonebone]

I work on plenty of environments with Cisco and Avaya with out too many problems.

Are you referring to Cisco Discovery Protocol? The Avaya phones don't speak CDP -- they speak LLDP though.

 

[gwebster]

I know that Avaya phones do not use Cisco Discovery Protocol. I was wondering if the Avaya phones work OK if they happen to be deployed in a Cisco network where CDP is enabled.

 

[dialtonebone]

It shouldn't, no. I'd imagine that the phones ignore the CDP message no different than they would ignore any other messages coming across that didn't pertain to the device.