[c-nsp] Removing VTP Server switch

[Paul Stewart]

We'd never do that scenario so that's possibly one reason we've never gotten
bit.  One master across our network is all we have and all we want ;)
Everything else is a client....

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:18 AM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: 'Raja Subramanian'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Removing VTP Server switch

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:39:45AM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote:
> I was kind of wondering the same thing... a couple hundred VLAN's spread
> across several 6500's and never had an issue in 7 years.... :)

If you want fun, try this:

 - connect another switch, have it learn the VTP database, make it a 
   VTP master  (VTP can have multiple masters)

 - disconnect it, to use it in a lab setup, or so

 - for the LAB setup, decide "oh, I don't need all those VLANs that are
   there from the original setup"

 - some time later, connect it back to the "real" setup, and watch all
   VLANs on *all* switches go...

gert
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