I think Cisco generally recommends that your switch mgmt interface is on a
different VLAN than your regular (read: end-user/server) devices. This
helps isolate broadcast/multicast traffic so the switch CPU doesn't have to
process it - especially critical in networks where there is a high
Not sure, I'm understanding your question but try this.
Make all of your switches operate in Vlan 2
all other management protocolsCDP,VTP and such are in VLAN 1
and then use the rest of your vlan for date traffic from hosts.
Michael Kelker wrote:
this isn't a direct CCNP cert question,
maybe I'm making this whole thing too complicated. What if I just put a
loopback interface on each router/switch on a management subnet.
what I'm trying to attempt is to make my entire router / switching structure
easier to access by not having to remember exactly which whole ip address is
for
Other suggestions for not using VLAN 1 for mgmt are:
- Before version 5.4 of CatOS, VLAN 1 couldn't be
removed from VLAN trunk links.
- VLAN1 is default VLAN which means if it was the
mgmt VLAN and switches weren't configured to put all
ports in another VLAN if someone plugged into one of
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