From: Tim Fletcher (tim@fletchmail.net)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 20:06:17 GMT-3
I think this may be platform dependent. It's been a while, but I seem to remember trunking between 5000s didn't work until the domain name was set on the client. I seem to recall that it wouldn't even let you set client mode without setting the domain name first.
-tim
At 12:06 PM 10/19/02 -0700, LoizosCisco wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Thanks for testing this on your 3550s.
>I think there is a trick somewhere when you want to
>change the VTP names. I think it will not let you
>change the client VTP name unless if you delete it
>first or change the VTP server name first or something
>like that. Can someone with 3550s confirm that please?
>
>Thanks again
>
>Loizos
>
>
>--- Fabrice Bobes <study@6colabs.com> wrote:
>> Stefan,
>>
>> I can confirm that a vtp client in a default vtp
>> state will get the vtp
>> server's domain name via a trunk.
>> I tried this on 2 of my Catalysts 3550 not later
>> than yesterday. No, I
>> wasn't bored.
>>
>> Thanks for the comments,
>>
>> Fabrice
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
>> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Stefan L. Dozier
>> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 11:07 AM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: RE: VTP domain.
>>
>>
>> Comments Inline.....
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
>> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
>> Fabrice Bobes
>> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 1:07 PM
>> To: 'Stefan L. Dozier'; ccielab@groupstudy.com;
>> enginedrive2002@yahoo.ca
>> Subject: RE: VTP domain.
>>
>>
>> OK, you can issue the "vtp domain" command on a
>> switch in the client
>> mode. But the switch will inherits the domain name
>> via the trunk link.
>>
>> SLD> Maybe it will, I've never seen it happen, but
>> I'll assume until
>> I can test to be sure, that you're talking a
>> switch with default
>> vtp
>> parameters, connected via trunk to a vtp
>> server, and changed
>> to a client, will pickup the vtp server's
>> domain name.
>> But if the client switch is not a default vtp
>> state, i.e.
>> vtp parameters have been previously configured,
>> and you change
>> the domain name on the server, that domain name
>> will not propogate
>> via vtp to the client switch, but will result
>> in a vtp mismatch
>> as noted below.
>>
>> A vtp advertisement includes the VTP domain name.
>>
>> SLD> On this point, I stand corrected, the domain
>> name is indeed
>> included in the vtp advertisement. Which is why
>> I'll entertain
>> the possibility above, until I can test and
>> prove otherwise!
>>
>>
>> The initial question is: Is the command "vtp domain"
>> a must on a vtp
>> client? My answer is you don't need it but you can
>> enter it. You will
>> learn the vtp domain name via the trunk.
>>
>> SLD> I'll save the debate here, until I can complete
>> testing...
>>
>> If you enter the vtp domain on a vtp client you add
>> some kind of
>> security since the vtp advertisements will be
>> ignored if the vtp domain
>> mismatch.
>>
>> SLD> Well, I wouldn't call it a security mechanism,
>> although you're
>> right about the vtp adverts in the case of a
>> vtp mismatch.
>>
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
>> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Stefan L. Dozier
>> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:22 AM
>> To: enginedrive2002; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: RE: VTP domain.
>>
>>
>> Yes!
>>
>> I don't know of any other way to tell the "vtp
>> client" the domain name
>> of your "vtp server" unless you issue the command
>> "vtp domain <domain
>> name> on the vtp client. It's not automagically
>> transmitted via vtp
>> advertisements if that's your line of thinking!
>>
>> caveat...
>>
>> "This assumes that you have 2 switches, one a vtp
>> server and the other a
>> vtp client, and you want both switches in the same
>> vtp domain"
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
>> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
>> enginedrive2002
>> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 11:43 AM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: VTP domain.
>>
>>
>> Is the command "vtp domain <domain name>" a must on
>> a VTP client when I
>> already have VTP server configured?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> E.D.
>
>
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