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Cisco Systems 5.0(1) manual Updating an IP Address for the CDP Protocol Driver

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Chapter 5 Cisco Discovery Protocol Support

Updating an IP Address for the CDP Protocol Driver

Enabling the CDP Protocol Driver

 

Toenable the CDP protocol driver, follow these steps.

 

 

Step 1

Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel.

Step 2

Double-click System.

Step 3

Click the Hardware tab.

Step 4

Click the Device Manager button.

 

The Device Manager window appears.

Step 5

Choose View > Devices by connection.

Step 6

Choose View > Show hidden devices.

Step 7

Double-clickCDP Protocol Driver.

Step 8

Click the Driver tab.

Step 9

Choose Enable Device.

Step 10

Click Next, and then click Finish to enable the device.

Step 11

Click Close and restart the system.

 

 

Showing the CDP Protocol Driver Properties

To show CDP protocol driver properties, follow these steps:

Step 1 Choose Start > Run.

Step 2 In the Run field, type \WINNT\system32\drivers.

Step 3 Click OK.

Step 4 Right-click cdp.sys.

Step 5 Choose Properties to show CDP driver properties.

Step 6 Click OK.

Updating an IP Address for the CDP Protocol Driver

The CDP protocol driver runs on top of the existing Ethernet network interface card. You can restart CDP when a new IP address is configured at run time.

To update the CDP protocol driver, restart CDP using the Windows Device Manager to update the CDP driver with the new IP address information. You do not have to reset the system after updating.

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