RE: VLAN Question

From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2006 - 16:06:17 ART


        You can't create VLANs on a switch in client mode, the IOS or
CatOS will not allow you to. If you want locally significant VLANs for
security purposes use VTP Transparent mode.

HTH,

Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Durkin, Michael (MED US)
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:56 AM
> To: Narbik Kocharians; Thiago Vazquez
> Cc: Oluwatosin Adeosun; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: VLAN Question
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have a question about VLAN'S and VTP. If you have configured a
switch
> as VTP client mode switch, can you then create VLAN'S on the switch. I
> understand the theory that you would only want to create a VLAN on the
> switches configured as a server, but if you wanted the specific VLAN'S
> to only reside on this one switch, for security, could you still
create
> them there? I know that you would traditionally do with by pruning the
> VLAN'S on all links that you don't want the VLAN'S to be propagated
with
> VTP, but that could lead to a lot of manual configuration which may
not
> be necessary.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
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