If you are not  familiar with Virtal LAN (VLAN), VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) and how to configure VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP), click the following links to learn

• How to create and name VLAN

• What is VLAN Trunking Protocol

• How to configure VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

Refer the simple switching lab setup shown below. We have already created VLAN 10 and VLAN 20 in Switch 1 and configured VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP).

To view VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) configuration information on Switch 1, open console connection to Switch 1 and run the "show vtp status" IOS command from privileged mode as shown below.

omnisecu.com.sw01>enable
omnisecu.com.sw01#show vtp status
VTP Version : 2
Configuration Revision : 0
Maximum VLANs supported locally : 255
Number of existing VLANs : 7
VTP Operating Mode : Server
VTP Domain Name : omnisecu.com
VTP Pruning Mode : Disabled
VTP V2 Mode : Disabled
VTP Traps Generation : Disabled
MD5 digest : 0x06 0xBA 0x4C 0xA5 0x98 0xCA 0x97 0x44
Configuration last modified by 0.0.0.0 at 3-1-93 01:28:36
Local updater ID is 0.0.0.0 (no valid interface found)
omnisecu.com.sw01#

To view VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) configuration information on Switch 2, open console connection to Switch 2 and run the "show vtp status" IOS command from privileged mode as shown below.

omnisecu.com.sw02>enable
omnisecu.com.sw02#show vtp status
VTP Version : 2
Configuration Revision : 0
Maximum VLANs supported locally : 255
Number of existing VLANs : 7
VTP Operating Mode : Client
VTP Domain Name : omnisecu.com
VTP Pruning Mode : Disabled
VTP V2 Mode : Disabled
VTP Traps Generation : Disabled
MD5 digest : 0x06 0xBA 0x4C 0xA5 0x98 0xCA 0x97 0x44
Configuration last modified by 0.0.0.0 at 3-1-93 01:28:36

 

 

Related Topics...

• What is Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)

• Advantages of VLAN

• VLAN Membership Types

• How to create and name static VLAN

• How to view VLAN information

• Types of VLAN connection links - Trunk Links and Access Links

• VLAN Frame Tagging

• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) VLAN Tagging

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging

• How to configure VLAN trunk link and native VLAN

• How to configure and assign a switch access port to a VLAN

• What is VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

• What is VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) Domain

• VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) Modes

• VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) Advertisement Messages

• How to configure VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

• What is VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) Pruning

 

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