From: robbie (robbie@packetized.org)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 14:49:21 GMT-3
Is it still technically pruning if you're allowing only specific VLANs
to transit a trunk link? I always thought of pruning as a process of
removing VLANs that are otherwise allowed on the link, which you have to
be running VTP to do (via the pruning mechanism).
Semantics, whee. :D
Cheers,
Robbie
ccie2be wrote:
> Excellent point. However, I would say that's essentially the same situation
> as a switch running in vtp transparent mode since routers don't run vtp.
>
> But, it's good to keep these things in mind.
>
> Thanks, tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugene Ward [mailto:eward15@juno.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:06 AM
> To: l2carter@yahoo.com
> Cc: ccie2be@nyc.rr.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: 2 methods to prune
>
>
> What if a switch was connected to a router through a trunk link?
>
> Eugene Ward
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Yah, if you were told not to use one of the methods in
> the lab :)
>
> --- ccie2be <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Most of you getting close to taking the lab probably
>>know this already but
>>just in case you don't, there are 2 ways to
>>configure pruning:
>>
>>1. enable vtp pruning
>>
>>2. manually specify which vlans are allowed
>>to transit the trunk
>>
>>
>>I can only come up with one reason to use method 2
>>instead of method 1 - if
>>one or both of the switches are in vtp transparent
>>mode.
>>
>>Besides that one reason for using method 2, can
>>anybody think of any other
>>scenario's where either method could NOT be used?
>>
>>TIA, Tim
>
>
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