From: Radoslav Vasilev (deckland@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2006 - 07:18:02 ART
Thanks for that Petr!
On 7/8/06, Petr Lapukhov <petr@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
>
> Radoslav,
>
> Radoslav, think of it in this way
>
> 1) You are required to establish permanent trunk. You may achieve that
> with DTP mode "ON", or without DTP at all. With DTP you'll just keep
> sending to the other side your trunk status. If you are not *explicitly*
> (or somehow implicitly) required to turn DTP off, you may leave it there,
> or turn it off - it's up to you to decide. As long as you get *correct*
> output
> from "show inter trunk", it does not matter.
>
> 2) Once again, if you are required to establish a trunk, you may do it in
> any way you like.It's just if they ask for "negotiated" trunk, or
> something
> like that, you should take care. Just remember two basic verification
> commads: "show inter trunk" "show inter fa x/y switchport". They should
> produce output, that is in sync with your task requiremenst.
>
> HTH
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> 2006/7/8, Radoslav Vasilev <deckland@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi Group,
>
> Currently using IEWBv3 for my lab preparations and I keep on noticing that
> every time a manual trunking is required between two switches (ISL or
> dot1a, no matter) the ``switchport nonegotiate`` command is not used in
> their solutions. Doesn't it make more sence (even for a lab) to switch off
> DTP once we state `switchport mode trunk` ? Also - is such
> extra-configuration punished on the exam grading?
>
>
> Thanks for your opinion!
> Rado
>
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