Troliver

stories of war between boy and machine

November, 2015

Decoding LLDP and CDP packets using a TLV reader for C++

November 13, 2015, Troliver Howto, , 0

Further to my previous post, this post details how to interpret network discovery packets – LLDP and CDP – that have been captured on a network interface. To do this, I’ll explain how to create a Type, Length and Value reader that reads an array of characters, determines the type of packet and its subsequent data fields […]

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Capturing LLDP and CDP packets using C++ and WinPcap

November 3, 2015, Troliver Howto, , 0

I’ll categorise and change the order of posts later perhaps, but here is the first in a series on how I made an application to record the switchport and vlan, of a switch, that a computer is connected to. This setup will work where: You have a Windows PC with Winsock installed (Windows XP or later […]

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