From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2007 - 14:38:26 ART
The particular goals for the actual lab will be spelled out in
the lab booklet. You can safely assume however that at a minimum your
goal is to get connectivity between all of the devices as outlined in
the logical topology diagram. If you have switches in the transit path
that are in transparent mode then it is implied that they must have the
VLAN configured in order to have a forwarding instance of spanning-tree
for that broadcast domain.
HTH,
Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cecil Wilson [mailto:Cecil.Wilson@flextronics.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:35 PM
To: Brian McGahan; Andy
Cc: Sadiq Yakasai; Angelo De Guzman; Group Study (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Switching Stategy
Hello
what if we have a mixture of VTP server, client and also
Transperent
Or what is its all transparent, then I guest we would config the VLAN
on all switch?
I have a similar problem
Thanks for inputs
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Brian McGahan
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:23 PM
To: Andy
Cc: Sadiq Yakasai; Angelo De Guzman; Group Study (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Switching Stategy
If the VLANs span multiple switches then there's no way to test
that they are actually working without trunking configured. At some
point in the lab you're going to have to test your configurations
regardless. By building the network in a structured fashion and testing
your configurations as you go along you'll cut down on the amount of
time you need to spend troubleshooting in the long run.
HTH,
Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP)
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From: Andy [mailto:and123and@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:00 PM
To: Brian McGahan
Cc: Sadiq Yakasai; Angelo De Guzman; Group Study (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Switching Stategy
Thanks Brian, what about vlans, would you do the trunking section, vtp
and then add vlans. I was thinking of adding in all vlans via notepad to
each switch then trunk, then vtp?
Onlu I am uncertain as to wether all switches should have all vlans
configed, sure would save time, but may be overconfiguration...
On 13/06/07, Brian McGahan <bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
In general you should not build a broken network in the exam, or
configure features out of order that disallow you from verifying them.
If I were in the lab exam, and the first switching section was VTP, I
would skip it and move on to trunking and then come back, since VTP
can't be verified without trunking working.
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
Andy
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:50 AM
To: Sadiq Yakasai
Cc: Angelo De Guzman; Group Study (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Switching Stategy
Hi Sadiq
yeah, but that would mean I have to configure VTP / trunking, and it may
be
that VTP is more than one domain, meaning that I would not be able to
config
on one switch and propogate all VLANs to other 3 switches ( as there is
more than 1 VTP domain).
I am rying to establish a methodology to save time, I think:
1. Note all VLANs in ALL switches
2. Copy to notepad and apply to ALL switches
3. Config VTP, trunking etc as required.
My concern here would be that all switches have all vlans configed
wether
they are being used or not, is this likely to cost me points? What
methodology do you guys employ?
-A
On 13/06/07, Sadiq Yakasai <sadiqtanko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Dont you think configurring the VLANs on one switch and propagating it
> all to other switches is a kinda check to make sure the VTP domain and
> trunk ports are actually functional and carrying the traffic as they
> are suposed to?
>
>
>
> On 6/13/07, Andy < and123and@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Angelo, I quite like the idea of putting them in notepad and
> pasting
> > to all the switches, I prefer to get the VLANS config'd before
applying
> > trunking etc, my only concern is shoud I config all the VLANs on ALL
> > switches.
> >
> > ie, say we have vlan 12 and it is only used on switches 1 and 2 and
is
> being
> > trunked between 1 and 2. Should I put vlan 12 on switches 3 and 4 as
> well,
> > will I lose points for this? If I can then this will save a lot of
time,
> > else when doing labs I am finding it takes me ages to see which
switch
> > supports which vlan.
> >
> > -A
> >
> >
> > On 13 Jun 2007 17:34:00 +0800, Angelo De Guzman <
> > a.deguzman@wesolv.ph.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Andy,
> > > This is a matter of preference. Lots of ways to do it and
eventually
> if
> > > you
> > > are practicing some vendors workbook you can develop your own
> technique.
> > > For me,
> > > I usually enumerate them and document them on the sheet provided.
At
> one
> > > point
> > > I used colors as well to differentiate.
> > > Vlan name:
> > > VLANA
> > > VLANA correspond to VLAN 100 assigned to ports etc. etc. etc.
> > > HTH,
> > > Angelo De Guzman, CCIE # 16887
> > >
> > > Andy (6/13/2007 5:10 PM):
> > > >
> > > >What is the "best" way to approach the configuring of VLANS
section
> of
> > > the
> > > >lab?
> > > >
> > > > - Configure vlans on one switch and propagate to all other
switches,
> > > >assuming trunking is working
> > > > - Note all vlans in notepad and copy to all switches, then
config
> VTP,
> > > >trunking etc
> > > >
> > > >I am finding it is taking me a while to config each vlan on each
> switch,
> > > >would it be easier to config all vlans on all switches (via
notepad),
> or
> > > >will I "lose" points if I have a vlan configed on a switch that
is
> not
> > > being
> > > >used. ie it shows up via "sh vlan brie" but is not being used by
the
> > > switch
> > > >(configd on access port or svi) or trunked.
> > > >
> > > >Should ALL switches have ALL vlans configured even if they are
used
> or
> > > not?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >-A
> > > >
> > >
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