Basic Cisco Switch Configuration - 3. Create and Enable VTP on Network
👇 Enable VTP Config on Network 👇 If you get a CCNA job, it is likely that you will manage a lot of switches. You will work a lot with VLANs , adapting the network to business needs. Since this could potentially eat all of your time, we can use some tools to make our job fast. VTP – VLAN Trunk Protocol, is one of the tools that Cisco offers for that. With VTP, we can propagate VLAN changes to all our switches in seconds. However, to do that we need to understand how the VLAN Trunk protocol works. If used in the wrong way, it can destroy your network. Click on HERE to reach video tutorial. VTP Modes With VTP version 1 and 2, each switch can play three different roles: server , client and transparent . A switch in server mode will allow the administrator to configure VLANs (or modify/delete them). It will increase the revision number on each modification and propagate the database to other switches. This is the default. In client mode , the switch doesn’t allow the configur