On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Prabhu K. wrote:

>   By default, broadcasts for a VLAN are sent to every switch that as a
> trunk link that carries the VLAN, is it true?

Correct. If you have three switches all trunked together, and vlan 12 has
four ports on only one of the switches, broadcasts on vlan 12 will
traverse all switch's trunk ports.

The way to get around this is use VTP pruning. This removes unused VLANs
from trunk ports.

Rgds,



- I.

--
Ian Henderson CCNA, CCNP
Network Engineer, iiNet Limited




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