From: Leigh Harrison (ccileigh@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 07:26:11 GMT-3
Hey Venkat,
"state active" refers to the vlan
you can find it in the vlan database:-
vlan 123 state active
or under ios
(config) vlan 123
(config-vlan) state active
you can suspend them too if you like
LH
Venkataramanaiah.R wrote:
>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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