Re: Can't delete vlan.dat

From: Jonathan Greenwood II (gwood83@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2008 - 23:23:28 ARST


I agree the ports will come back in a up state. Now if you shutdown the
ports then save the configuration the ports should come back in an
administrative down state. I doubt he saved the configuration once he shut
the ports down before he rebooted..

Jonathan

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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