06-12-2002 06:25 AM - edited 03-01-2019 10:08 PM
Can a VTP domain be seen across a router with a switch on either side?
06-12-2002 06:56 AM
VTP uses VLAN 1. If VLAN 1 can cross the router then VTP can cross.
06-17-2002 06:22 AM
Hi.
Sorry but you are wrong. VTP is a layer 2 protocol which runs on VLAN 1 as you said, but VTP messages are sent to the address 01000ccccccc which is processed by switches and not by routers, unless the router is working as a bridge, which in that case will forward VTP frames across its interfaces. Routers, as layer 3 devices, break VTP domains as Jackson said. If you have a router between two switches you will need two separate VTP domains.
Rgds.
NM
06-17-2002 09:32 AM
You are correct of course. I was thinking one thing and typing another.
06-17-2002 12:02 AM
VTP will ONLY communicate via trunk ports, so therefore you will have to setup 2 VTP domains if there is a router separating the two switches.
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