From: Venkataramanaiah.R (vramanaiah@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 07:09:05 GMT-3
Hi Tim, Could you please provide pointers to the exact command? I do
not find this command "state active" anywhere...
-Venkat
On 10/17/05, Tim <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> Stefan,
>
> I've run into similar situations where vlans I've created don't show up
> where I expect them to on vtp clients.
>
> I'm not 100% sure what the reason is. Maybe I was too impatient and if I
> had just waited a little longer it would show up or something else was going
> on - I couldn't always figure it out. Maybe, it was because I forgot to
> save my config after creating the vlans - I don't know.
>
> But, I have found one command that sometimes helps:
>
> State active. This command forces the vlan to show up in the show vlan
> brief output even if no port is assigned to that vlan on that switch.
>
> Re: root for a given vlan; This is based on STP and is totally independent
> of VTP (where vlan is create). So, just use the spantree command to make a
> given switch the root for a given vlan. Check the doc's for the command
> syntax.
>
> HTH, Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Stefan Grey
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:21 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Switch Vlan database.
>
> Hello gruop,
>
> I have got such a question. When for example I have 2 directly connected
> switches and one is in server mode second in client mode. I configure the
> vlan database on the fist one...
>
> say:
> vlanA
> vlanB
> vlanC
> vlanD
>
> the first switch has just VlanA access port. SW2 has only vlanC and vlanD
> accessport.
> and we want SW1 to become the root for VLAN B.
>
> 1. When this is configured evertything is just fine. But after rebooting.
> Switch one has only vlanA in its database.. hence nothing for SW2 and not
> VlanB. I can't unerstand this since prunning is not enabled. What could it
> be?? The vlan database is stored in vlan.dat file as far as I understand and
>
> should be the same after rebooting what should it be??
>
> 2. If in the task is not explicitely told should we set extra access port
> for VlanB. To make it a root port.
>
> and general question. I heared some advises to reboot all the devices to
> check that everything is fine during the lab. Is this also recommended for
> switches??
>
> Thanks,
>
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