Hi I was hoping someone could help with some confusion with multiple vlans and CDP.
I have 3 vlans setup on a 3750 switch, each with an individual IP in their respective subnets, and the corresponding IP setup on each vlan on the router.
Vlan 4 - Voice Vlan
Vlan 400 - Data Vlan
Vlan 401 - WIFI Vlan
All phones are registered in voice vlan4, all users pcs work in vlan400, all CISCO APs are configured in vlan401. CISCO APs are in LWAP mode and talk to a controller located offsite (data centre)
On the 3750 if I setup the ports to the APs as regular access ports, everything works fine, staff can connect and operate in their respective areas with no problems.
But on the switch, if you run "show cdp neighbor" no results will be displayed for the APs unless you add the command "switchport voice vlan 4", only then they will display in the cdp neighbor output.
I know that CDP will operate in the lowest VLAN ID (in this case vlan4) but I thought that information such as CDP would transmit over the other vlans (400 or 401) if vlan4 was not configured on that port?
Is there a way to have CDP information displayed from devices in vlan 401, without having to have vlan 4 also added to that port? Can you force CDP to work in other vlans not just the lowest vlan ?
Sample trunk port config to the router:
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interface GigabitEthernet1/1
description Router 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 4,400,401
switchport mode trunk
Sample access port config to the AP with just vlan 400: (no cdp information is displayed)
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interface GigabitEthernet3/0/48
description Cisco AP
switchport access vlan 400
switchport mode access
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpduguard enable
Sample access port config to the AP with vlan 4 added: (cdp information is displayed)
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interface GigabitEthernet3/0/48
description Cisco AP
switchport access vlan 400
switchport mode access
switchport voice vlan 4
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpduguard enable
