Archives by Tag 'VTP'

VTP Configuration

By admin - Last updated: Monday, November 9, 2009

Before VLANs can be configured, VTP must be configured. By default, every switch will operate in VTP server mode for the management domain NULL, with no password or secure mode. The following sections discuss the commands and considerations that shoul...

VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

By admin - Last updated: Monday, November 9, 2009

Administration of network environments that consists of many interconnected switches
is complicated. Cisco has developed a propriety solution to manage VLANs across such
networks using the VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) to exchange VLAN conf...

Example Analysis

By admin - Last updated: Wednesday, June 3, 2009

【Lab Objectives】 You have just been hired by pass4sure.com to help their main office expand. The main offices have enhanced their wiring closets with some Layer 3 switches. The new distribution layer switch has been installed and a new ac...

Configuring PVLAN

By admin - Last updated: Wednesday, June 3, 2009

【Lab Objectives】 Keep the following restrictions in mind when configuring PVLANs correctly: • PVLAN trunk ports support only IEEE 802.1q encapsulation. • Community VLANs are not supported in this release. • You cannot ch...

Routing Between VLANs and VTP Protocol

By admin - Last updated: Thursday, May 21, 2009

【Lab Objectives】 1. Master the VTP configuration methods. 2. Master the routing configuration methods between VLANs and the sub-interface configurations.
【Lab Topology】 【Lab steps and requirements】 1. Confi...

CCNA VLAN Notes

By admin - Last updated: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Virtual LANs If you have a 24 port Cisco switch and you plug a PC into each port of the Cisco switch, you have all 24 PCs on a single LAN via that Cisco switch. A VLAN is a Virtual LAN. Now if you still connect all 24 of those PCs to the same Cisco [....

Cisco VLAN Trunking Protocol

By admin - Last updated: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Cisco VTP: VLAN Trunking Protocol
VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) is a Cisco Layer 2 messaging protocol that manages the addition, deletion, and renaming of VLANs on a network-wide basis. Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Trunk Protocol (VTP) reduc...

Configuring a VLAN

By admin - Last updated: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) is a Layer 2 messaging protocol that maintains VLAN configuration consistency throughout a common administrative domain by managing VLAN additions, deletions, and name changes across multiple switches. VTP server updates a...

All about STP

By admin - Last updated: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

STP Basics
Supported STP Instances
This software release supports the per-VLAN spanning tree (PVST) and a maximum of 64 spanning-tree instances. If more VLANs are defined in the VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) than STP instances, you can enab...