What is VTP password?
What is VTP password?
VTP Configuration Commands
Command | Description |
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Switch(config)# vtp password password | The 16-byte secret value used in Message Digest 5 (MD5) digest calculation to be sent in VTP advertisements and to validate received VTP advertisements. The password can be an ASCII string from 1 to 32 characters and is case sensitive. |
How do I enable VTP on a Cisco switch?
Configuring basic VTP on CISCO Switches
- Step 1 – Creating a VTP Server. VTP has the following 3 different modes:
- Step 2 – Configuring a switch as a VTP client. Enter configuration mode and use the following commands to enable client mode.
- Step 3 – Configure native and trunking VLAN.
- Step 4 Testing VTP.
What is the purpose of domain name and password in VTP server?
The vtp domain domain-name command is used to set the VTP domain name of a Cisco IOS device. The domain-name is case sensitive and can be up to 32 characters in length. The vtp password password command is used to set the VTP password of a Cisco IOS device.
What is VTP mode in Cisco?
VTP server mode (Cisco) VTP servers advertise their VLAN configurations to other switches in the same VTP domain and synchronize their VLAN configurations with other switches based on advertisements received over trunk links. VTP server is the default mode.
What is a VTP domain?
A VTP domain for a network is a set of all contiguously trunked switches with the matching VTP settings (domain name, password and VTP version). All switches in the same VTP domain share their VLAN information with each other, and a switch can participate in only one VTP management domain.
What is VTP on Cisco switch?
VTP is a Layer 2 messaging protocol that maintains VLAN consistency by managing the addition, deletion, and renaming of VLANs within a VTP domain. A VTP domain is made up of one or more network devices that share the same VTP domain name and that are connected with trunk interfaces.
What is VTP mode in Cisco switch?
What is VTP domain name?
What is VTP domain in Cisco?
What is domain name in VTP?
A VTP domain is a set of trunked switches with the matching VTP settings (the domain name, password and VTP version). All switches inside the same VTP domain share their VLAN information with each other. To better understand the true value of VTP, consider an example network with 100 switches.