interpreting CDP packages (the ugly way)

today I had to interpret CDP packages on our network.
I'm no shell-coder, but sometimes I'm curious and in such situations this script will come out.
In this particular case its output just gives the Switchname, Switchport, VLAN and Duplex settings, but everyone who wants can do a lot more (and better).
the script itselve:

#!/usr/bin/bash

snoopfile="/tmp/snoopy$$.bin"
snoopline="/tmp/snoopy$$.line"
snoop -d $1 -c 1 -vv  -o $snoopfile 'dst 01:00:0c:cc:cc:cc and length > 50'
snoop -i $snoopfile  -x 26 | nawk -F: ' { print $2 } ' | \
cut -b1-41|  sed -e 's/ //g' | nawk 'BEGIN { ORS="" } { print $1 } ' | \
tr [a-z] [A-Z] > $snoopline
instr=`cat $snoopline`
while  [ $instr ]
do
typ=`echo $instr | cut -b1-4`
lhex=`echo $instr | cut -b5-8`
length=$(echo "ibase=16; $lhex*2" | bc)
next=$(echo "ibase=16; $lhex*2+1" | bc)
if [ $length -gt 8 ]
then
texthex=`echo $instr | cut -b9-$length`
else
texthex=""
fi
#  echo "$typ $lhex $texthex"
if [ $typ == "0001" ]
then
printf "Switchname: "
while  [ $texthex ]
do
charhex=`echo $texthex | cut -b1-2`
chardec=$(echo "ibase=16; $charhex" | bc)
printf "%b" `printf '\x%x' $chardec 2>/dev/null`
texthex=`echo $texthex | cut -b3-`
done
echo " "
fi
if [ $typ == "0003" ]
then
printf "Switchport: "
while  [ $texthex ]
do
charhex=`echo $texthex | cut -b1-2`
chardec=$(echo "ibase=16; $charhex" | bc)
printf "%b" `printf '\x%x' $chardec 2>/dev/null`
texthex=`echo $texthex | cut -b3-`
done
echo " "
fi
if [ $typ == "000A" ]
then
echo "VLAN: 0x$texthex $(echo "ibase=16; $texthex" | bc)"
fi
if [ $typ == "000B" ]
then
echo "Duplex: $texthex"
fi
instr=`echo $instr | cut -b$next-`
done
rm $snoopfile $snoopline

Sorry for the line-breaks - you will have to reformat it a little bit (cut, paste & think).