CDP communicates through a proprietary protocol on top of UDP. With the Wireshark Dissector plugin from ICD AS, a user can capture and decode the CDP packets.

The Wireshark Dissector is distributed as a DLL plugin to Wireshark and is distributed freely to all CDP users.

All CDP packets are in binary format which makes it difficult to read the network traffic without proper tools and translators. We have found that Wireshark (previously known as Ethereal) is a good tool for capturing network traffic and decoding messages.

With this plugin the CDP packets are now decoded to a readable format, which makes the task of debugging a CDP system far easier. For instance using display or capture filters are a lot easier when using this filter since the decoded fields from the packets may be used when filters are specified.

See the user manual available for correct installation procedure and sample use.

V2,0 of the dissector has been tested with Wireshark stable V1.0.4, and Wireshark development V1.1.1.
(V1.0 only worked with Wirshark develop 1.0.99 built with VS2005).

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Installation

User Manual