That's what we initially thought, but he said it wasn't the case. I
just offered an explanation why the reboot may have fixed it.

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Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Lukasz <[email protected]> wrote:
> hm..I just reproduced that very easily. I configured all switches to be
> servers but they do not have the same databases.
>
>
> Cat1(config-if)#vtp mode server
> Setting device to VTP SERVER mode
> Cat1(config)#vtp domain IPexpert
> Changing VTP domain name from NULL to IPexpert
> Cat1(config)#vtp password ipexpert
> Setting device VLAN database password to ipexpert
> Cat1(config)#!
>
>
> *Mar  1 01:18:51.585: %SW_VLAN-4-VTP_USER_NOTIFICATION: VTP protocol user
> notification: MD5 digest checksum mismatch on receipt of equal revision
> summary on trunk: Po13
>
>
> Cat1(config)#do show vtp status
> VTP Version                     : running VTP1 (VTP2 capable)
> Configuration Revision          : 0
> Maximum VLANs supported locally : 1005
> Number of existing VLANs        : 22
> VTP Operating Mode              : Server
> VTP Domain Name                 : IPexpert
> VTP Pruning Mode                : Disabled
> VTP V2 Mode                     : Disabled
> VTP Traps Generation            : Disabled
> MD5 digest                      : 0xEE 0x63 0xC2 0xA2 0x17 0x27 0xB9 0x49
> *** MD5 digest checksum mismatch on trunk: Po12 ***
> *** MD5 digest checksum mismatch on trunk: Po13 ***
>
> To eliminate this I have added ´dummy´ vlan on one of the switches so that
> revision number has increased. All other switches looked on the higher
> revision to update its databases. After this all md5 mismatch disapeared!.
>
>
> Cat4(config)# vlan 99
> Cat4(config-vlan)#exit
> Cat4(config)#end
>
> Cat1(config)#do show vtp status
> VTP Version                     : running VTP1 (VTP2 capable)
> Configuration Revision          : 1
> Maximum VLANs supported locally : 1005
> Number of existing VLANs        : 23
> VTP Operating Mode              : Server
> VTP Domain Name                 : IPexpert
> VTP Pruning Mode                : Disabled
> VTP V2 Mode                     : Disabled
> VTP Traps Generation            : Disabled
> MD5 digest                      : 0x3B 0x98 0xFB 0xBF 0xDA 0xC6 0xDD 0x51
> Configuration last modified by 215.12.34.14 at 3-1-93 01:18:53
> Local updater ID is 215.0.0.11 on interface Lo0 (first layer3 interface
> found)
>
> Does that sound like valid solution?
>
>
> Regards,
> Lukasz
>
>
>
> On 2012-10-27 00:59, Marko Milivojevic wrote:
>>
>> I think I know what might have happened, but it's hard to reproduce
>> without seeing the entire setup. I think your VTP server was trying to
>> update clients on an STP blocking port. During your reboot, there
>> could have been a temporary situation when the STP topology was
>> temporarily different (switches not booting at the same time) and that
>> actually fixed the issue for everyone, even if STP reconverged to the
>> original topology.
>>
>> MD5 errors were probably clients trying to update each other.
>>
>> --
>> Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
>> Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:54 PM, George Leslie
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,This I did. I did a client to transparent to client change on all
>>> non-servers to set revision back to the start. I then did a proper domain to
>>> dummy domain back to proper domain change. I  then added a dummy  vlan to
>>> server and then removed it, and then repeated this severla times, making
>>> sure I exited out of vlan mode each time. It made absolutely no difference.
>>> Still got the Md5 errors and all trunks were operational. Nothing I did,
>>> other than a reload, cured the issue. The VTP server was up at revision 5,
>>> the clients were back at 0.  All trunks were operational (sh int trunk), all
>>> passwords were the same (sh vtp pass and they had been pasted in from the
>>> SAME line in notepad, exactly the same paste).  Weird.
>>>  > From: [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:40:37 -0700
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> CC: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] VTP weirdness
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:27 PM, marc abel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > No it means you need to bump the revision number on your server by
>>>> > either
>>>> > creating a vlan or deleting a vlan. Basically if we both have config
>>>> > revision 1 then I can't update you. If I create a vlan I will have
>>>> > revision
>>>> > 2 which will overwrite your revision 1 and then we will be synced.
>>>>
>>>> Correct.
>>>>
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>>>> Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
>>>> Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
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