[nsp] VLAN database propagation

[Adrian Pirciu]

On Friday 19 March 2004 10:02, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> > > Overall I *do* like VTP, because it's so convenient, but you
> > > need to make sure that the number of people that connect and
> > > configure new VTP members is small, and that all those people
> > > know what they are doing.
> >
> > Agreed. Personally I have not experienced any such problems in
> > the past years..
>
> We have experienced lots of problems with VTP, even in recent
> years. Not with misconfigured switches "taking over" as VTP
> masters, but with misbehavior on the VTP masters themselves. This,
> and the fact that VTP forces you to have the same VLANs available
> everywhere, means that VTP is right out - it's simply not
> considered as a usable tool.
>
> We run all switches in VTP transparent mode, and use "allowed vlan"
> on all trunks. This has dramatically reduced our VLAN problems.

same results could have been reached using vtp with pruning. 

>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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