Re: Can't delete vlan.dat

From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2008 - 23:20:46 ARST

Good job Jason,
Another way to handle this is to authenticate the VTP domain on the other
switches.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com>wrote:

> Try shutting down all of your switch interfaces, doing a wr er reload, and
> see what you come up with. I'm quite sure you'll find the interfaces are no
> longer in the shutdown state ;-) They were coming back up, forming a trunk
> to another switch, and re-learning the vlans.
>
> Jason
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:05 PM, CCIE Gmail <majonestx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But previously he shut down all the ports and it didn't work ? By that
>> theory it shouldn't have recived the vlan.dat. File because no trunks would
>> be able to form due to all his ports being disabled. Am I missing something
>> here???
>>
>> - Michael
>>
>> Cry in the lab, laugh in the Data center.
>>
>> Sent from my IPhone.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 22, 2008, at 5:44 PM, "Narbik Kocharians" <narbikk@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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