VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) is a Cisco proprietary protocol that propagates VLAN’s on the whole local segments participating in the VTP domain. VTP advertisements are sent only over the trunk links. Switches operate in any one of these VTP modes: Server Mode -- In VTP server mode, can create, modify, and delete VLANs and specify other configuration parameters, such as VTP version and VTP ...
Network #07: VTP: VLAN Trunking Protocol in Cisco Packet Tracer - Part 1/2
The VTP domain refers as a group of devices being in the scope of VTP. Its a form of associating and subordinate them under the same set of rules. So, if a VTP server switch makes a change in the Vlan database, all the clients belonging to the same VTP domain will be under the scope of that change done in by the server. So, being clients, they will replicate the change done by the server ...
VTP pruning can be enabled only on thedevice running in server mode, and the settings will be inherited by all devices in the same VTP domain. If the network is converged, all devices in the VTP domain should agree that pruningis enabled, as shown in the below show vtp status output.
Hi! Cisco recommendation: Best Practices for VTP Implementation VTP is often used in a new network to facilitate the implementation of VLANs. However, as the network grows larger, this benefit can turn into a liability. If a VLAN is deleted by accident on one server, it is deleted throughout the network. If a switch that already has a VLAN database defined is inserted into the network, it can ...