I was working through INE’s Vol 3 workbook tonight and thought I would do VTP. This should have been a very simple topic to master – there are not too many commands and it is a very simple technology.
Although as many of you will know to be treated with care as it can destroy your network in one foul swoop. This is why in all the places I have worked we turn it off.
So I started off with my 4 switches wiped with clean config and setup a few trunks to connect them all together.
Configured SW1 as the server and the others as clients and for some reason SW4 was just not getting the vlan’s
How to troubleshoot VTP
The first command is sh vtp status
SW1#sh vtp status
VTP Version : 2
Configuration Revision : 10
Maximum VLANs supported locally : 1005
Number of existing VLANs : 17
VTP Operating Mode : Server
VTP Domain Name : CISCO
VTP Pruning Mode : Disabled
VTP V2 Mode : Enabled
VTP Traps Generation : Disabled
MD5 digest : 0xE3 0×60 0xB3 0×97 0×29 0xF2 0xE0 0xA9
Configuration last modified by 0.0.0.0 at 3-6-93 08:15:08
Local updater ID is 0.0.0.0 (no valid interface found)
There are a few interesting things here that I have found.
1. Ensure all switches are running the same version of vtp. Although the switch will say VTP Version 2 this does not mean it is running version 2 you need to ensure VTP V2 mode says enabled – if not put your switch into server mode and type vtp version 2
For some reason one of my switches says VTP Version : running V2
not sure why that is – will look into it.
So all your switches are running the same version. Still not vlans appearing
check the VTP password.
This is another strange one as the vtp password does not show in the config
To check type sh vtp password
SW1#sh vtp password
VTP Password: cisco
SW1#
I did this on all switches and one switch SW4 did not have the password set, I set the password and everything worked.
Remember that all the vlan data is not stored in the running-config but in a file in flash called vlan.dat
SW1#sh flash:
Directory of flash:/
2 -rwx 7963038 Mar 1 1993 00:44:13 +00:00 c3560-advipservicesk9-mz.122-25.SEE2.bin
3 -rwx 1304 Mar 6 1993 08:15:08 +00:00 vlan.dat
4 -rwx 3002 Mar 6 1993 02:08:32 +00:00 config.text
5 drwx 192 Mar 1 1993 00:06:00 +00:00 c3560-ipbase-mz.122-25.SEB2
358 -rwx 24 Mar 6 1993 02:08:32 +00:00 private-config.text
If you want to erase a switch completely you need to delete this file or else when you clear the config and reload the vlans just come back.
One last thing is debugs
If you are still getting nowhere
SW1#debug sw-vlan vtp ?
events vtp events
packets vtp packets
pruning vtp pruning events
redundancy vtp redundancy
xmit vtp packets transmitted
Ok now all that is working on to Mixing VTP modes
Cisco Documentation explains it so well:
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