Re: OT : 4924 / 45xx : Vlan.dat removal

Thanks steve, just wanted to make sure there wasn't something there I needed
to know about

Aaron

On Mar 27, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Steve Di Bias <sdibias_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, just pretend there's an invisible OR between them. Then again, erasing
the startup config isn't needed if you're only removing the vlans. Thanks for
pointing that out :/
>
> On Mar 27, 2011 3:27 PM, "Aaron" <aaron1_at_gvtc.com> wrote:
> > Why "we er" and "erase star" ? Isn't one enough?
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > On Mar 27, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Steve Di Bias <sdibias_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Not sure how you resolved, but my standard way of deleting VLAN's and
> >> reverting VTP back to Null is to toggle the VTP mode to server, remove
> >> vlan.dat and then reload
> >>
> >> connfig t
> >>
> >> vtp mode server
> >>
> >> do wr
> >>
> >> exit
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> delete /force /recu vlan.dat
> >>
> >> write erase
> >>
> >> erase startup-config
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:40 AM, GAURAV MADAN
<gauravmadan1177_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sorry .. Please ignore .. got it sorted .. was some VTP issue.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Gaurav Madan
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM, GAURAV MADAN
<gauravmadan1177_at_gmail.com
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Frnds
> >>>>
> >>>> In c3750 etc ; if we do "delete flash:vlan.dat" and reload the switch
;
> >>> we
> >>>> get all the user-created VLANs removed from the system .
> >>>>
> >>>> Is this different in 4924 / 4510 .?
> >>>>
> >>>> Following is what I am doing :
> >>>> ===========================================================
> >>>> C4924#dir cat4000_flash:
> >>>> Directory of cat4000_flash:/
> >>>>
> >>>> 1 -rw- 14056 <no date> vlan.dat
> >>>>
> >>>> 524280 bytes total (510224 bytes free)
> >>>>
> >>>> C4924#erase ca
> >>>> C4924#erase cat4000_flash: ?
> >>>> <cr>
> >>>>
> >>>> C4924#erase cat4000_flash:
> >>>> Erasing the cat4000_flash filesystem will remove all files! Continue?
> >>>> [confirm]
> >>>> [OK]
> >>>> Erase of cat4000_flash: complete
> >>>> C4924#dir cat4000_flash:
> >>>> Directory of cat4000_flash:/
> >>>>
> >>>> 1 -rw- 0 <no date> vlan.dat
> >>>>
> >>>> 524280 bytes total (524280 bytes free)
> >>>> C4924#
> >>>> ============================================================
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> After this ; I reload the switch ; But I see after reload that all
Vlans
> >>>> are present in database .
> >>>> Tried googling etc ; but no much help ..
> >>>>
> >>>> Can someone please put some light on this ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Gaurav Madan
> >>>
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