Re: Can't delete vlan.dat

From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2008 - 21:44:37 ARST

When the switch comes back up, it establishes a trunk and gets all the VLAN
info from the other switch, that's why this worked, once you shutdown the
other ports, the local switch was not able to establish a trunk.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jonny English <redkidneybeans@gmail.com>wrote:

> Shut all your ports down on all your switches.
> wr er
> reload
>
> *shut all your ports down on all your switches*
>
> del vlan.dat
> reload
>
> on all switches
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Syed Ali <testcricket@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark / Jonny,
> > I did shut down all the ports, saved the config
> > and deleted the vlan.dat but it shows up again after a reload. In fact I
> am
> > trying to remove the older vlan info as well as remove the entire config.
> to
> > move to the next lab.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Jonny English <redkidneybeans@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> shut all your ports on your switch.
> >> do a:
> >> del vlan.dat
> >> reload
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Syed Ali <testcricket@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi guys,
> >>> I am deleting as following on my 3550 :
> >>>
> >>> Switch#del vlan.dat
> >>> Delete filename [vlan.dat]?
> >>> Delete flash:vlan.dat? [confirm]
> >>> Switch#
> >>> When I say "pops back" I mean the output of command "dir" shows the
> >>> vlan.dat
> >>> file and my old vlan are shown.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:41 AM, sidd ant <aspiretobeccie@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > what command have you used to try and delete the file Syed?
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Syed Ali <testcricket@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> Hi all,
> >>> >> I have tried deleting vlan database and then write erase the
> >>> >> config
> >>> >> file. But after the reload the vlan.dat pops back up and I see the
> old
> >>> >> vlans
> >>> >> and vtp config. Can someone help as how to delete the old vlan and
> vtp
> >>> >> info.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> thanks
> >>> >> Syed
> >>> >>
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