From: Quetta Walla (quetta_1@lycos.com)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 17:26:42 GMT-3
Claude is right. You have to delete vlan.dat and then do write erase. The switch will start fresh with new vlan.dat
----- Original Message -----
From: "LeFort, Claude (Design)" <Claude.Lefort@aliant.ca>
To: "Nawaz, Ajaz" <Ajaz.Nawaz@bskyb.com>, ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: 3550 retained config after write erase
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:43:20 -0300
>
> I think that information is stored in the file vlan.dat on flash. I
> think an EMI switch would have changed vtp mode, but I don't think the
> SMI would have
>
>
> Claude
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Nawaz, Ajaz
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 3:35 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: 3550 retained config after write erase
>
> Despite executing 'write erase' followed by reload I noticed the vtp
> domain
> name along with any previously configured vlans still appearing in the
> config. As you may know the default vtp mode is 'Server'. However I had
> manually set this to 'Transparent' - this didn't go away too after the
> write
> erase.
>
> Show vlan displays vlans existing before write erase, as active?
> I expected the equivalent of 'clear config all' was 'write erase'
>
> It seems to clear the rest of the config... e.g hostname, intf settings
> etc. Nothing is attached to the switchports where it could dynamically
> learn
> this information. Even if it did how this does explain the retention of
> vtp
> domain name?
>
>
> Image c3550-i5q3l2-mz.121-13.EA1a (I've not b/scrubbed it yet)
>
> tia
> Ajaz Nawaz
>
>
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