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Chapter 18 Configuring VTP
Information About Configuring VTP
VTP pruning is not designed to function in VTP transparent mode. If one or more switches in the
network are in VTP transparent mode, you should do one of these:
Turn off VTP pruning in the entire network.
Turn off VTP pruning by making all VLANs on the trunk of the switch upstream to the VTP
transparent switch pruning ineligible.
To configure VTP pruning on an interface, use the switchport trunk pruning vlan interface
configuration command. VTP pruning operates when an interface is trunking. You can set VLAN
pruning-eligibility, whether or not VTP pruning is enabled for the VTP domain, whether or not any given
VLAN exists, and whether or not the interface is currently trunking.
Default VTP SettingsVTP Configuration Guidelines
You use the vtp global configuration command to set the VTP password, the version, the VTP filename,
the interface providing updated VTP information, the domain name, and the mode, and to disable or
enable pruning. For more information about available keywords, see the comma nd descriptions in the
command reference for this release. The VTP information is saved in the VTP VLAN database. When
VTP mode is transparent, the VTP domain name and mode are also saved in the switch running
configuration file, and you can save it in the switch startup configuration file by entering the copy
running-config startup-config privileged EXEC command. You must use this command if you want to
save VTP mode as transparent if the switch resets.
When you save VTP information in the switch startup configuration file and restart the switch, the
configuration is selected as follows:
If the VTP mode is transparent in both the startup configuration and the VLAN database and the
VTP domain name from the VLAN database matches that in the startup configuration file, the
VLAN database is ignored (cleared). The VTP and VLAN configurations in the startup
configuration file are used. The VLAN database revision number remains unchanged in t he VLAN
database.
Tab l e 18-2 Default VTP Settings
Feature Default Setting
VTP domain name Null.
VTP mode (VTP version 1 and version 2) Server.
VTP mode (VTP version 3) The mode is the same as the mode in VTP version 1 or 2
before conversion to version 3.
VTP version Version 1.
MST database mode Transparent.
VTP version 3 server type Secondary.
VTP password None.
VTP pruning Disabled.