Be careful! I would do what the lab says. If I'm told to configure VTP server/clients in the beginning then I do so. Then let VTP do it's magic. Then change the VTP mode to transparent mode if required later in the lab.
Lab it up and run "show vtp status" after your VTP server/clients have synchronized and then run "show vtp status" again after you change the VTP mode from server/client to transparent mode on all the switches. I'm pretty sure you will see something like "Configuration last modified by IP_address_of_VTP_server" after the last change. If your switches are in transparent mode when you start the lab and you think "hey why change the mode to VTP server/client when later in the lab I need to be in transparent mode anyways?" and then decide to manually sync the VLAN's between the switches you may have stepped on another land mine because the output of the "show vtp status" will not show "Configuration last modified by IP_address_of_VTP_server" when they grade the lab. How else can they verify that you did set your switches to VTP server/client at the beginning of the lab and give you points for that section? I hope that makes sense. Thanks, Rogelio Gamino On Feb 4, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Tony Singh wrote: > > > Maybe I didn't get the question but.....if your asked to configure VTP then > only VTPv3 can synchronise private vlan configuration > > Default on 3560's running lab code is VTPv1 and Cisco docs show manually > entering private vlan configuration across your switches, so yes you'd need > to be in transparent mode initially to do this across the board, I don't > think this would lose you any points > > -- > BR > > Tony > > >> On 4 Feb 2014, at 14:37, Houssam Chahine <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good day Gentlemen, >> >> I was watching Marco's CCIE Lab video's approach. He gave an example about >> "land mine" just to explain the idea of the necessity to read the entire >> Lab before starting to configure the equipments. >> >> He gave an example about reaching a question about Private VLANs and the >> effect of it on the core network behavior... >> >> At that moment a small question popped out in my mind. Let's say that the >> scenario is as per the below. >> >> Task 1 >> >> Configure SW1 as server, SW2, SW3 and SW4 as clients. >> Configure vlans... >> Assign ports to vlans.... >> >> and later on somewhere in task 5 it is requested to configure private vlans >> on SW1. That will impose to put SW1 in transparent mode. >> >> Supposing I read the entire lab as requested (a sure thing), shall I >> configure all the switches in transparent mode to overcome this land mine? >> Is it possible to configure SW2 as server and keep SW3 and SW4 in client >> mode (I mean in all cases task 5 will override what is requested in Task1) >> >> Thank you. >> _______________________________________________ >> Free CCIE R&S, Collaboration, Data Center, Wireless & Security Videos :: >> >> iPexpert on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ipexpertinc > _______________________________________________ > Free CCIE R&S, Collaboration, Data Center, Wireless & Security Videos :: > > iPexpert on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ipexpertinc _______________________________________________ Free CCIE R&S, Collaboration, Data Center, Wireless & Security Videos :: iPexpert on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ipexpertinc
