Re: Can't delete vlan.dat

From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2008 - 23:29:59 ARST

You got it Jonathan.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Jonathan Greenwood II <gwood83@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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