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Configuring VTP

Finding VTP Feature Information

Your software release may not support all the features documented in this chapter. For the latest feature
information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release.
Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support an d Cisco software image
support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on
Cisco.com is not required.

Prerequisites for Configuring VTP

When you configure VTP, you must configure a trunk port so that the switch can send and receive
VTP advertisements to and from other switches in the domain. For more information, see the
“Configuring an Ethernet Interface as a Trunk Port” section on page 17 -19.
Before adding a VTP client switch to a VTP domain, always verify that its VTP configuration
revision number is lower than the configuration revision number of the other switches in the VTP
domain. Switches in a VTP domain always use the VLAN configuration of the switch with the
highest VTP configuration revision number. If you add a switch that has a revision number higher
than the revision number in the VTP domain, it can erase all VLAN information from the VTP server
and VTP domain. See the “Adding a VTP Client Switch to a VTP Domain” section on page 18-13
for the procedure for verifying and resetting the VTP configuration revision number.

Restrictions for Configuring VTP

For VTP version 3, the switch must be running the LAN Base image.
VTP version 1 and VTP version 2 are not interoperable on switches in the same VTP domain. Do
not enable VTP version 2 unless every switch in the VTP domain supports version 2.
In VTP versions 1 and 2, when you configure extended-range VLANs on the switch, the switch must
be in VTP transparent mode. VTP version 3 also supports creating extended-range VLANs in client
or server mode.