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Stubby Post - Null VTP Domain Scare

Remember a few weeks back when I had a bad day? I was actually at HQ that day to do some work for a project, but that got put off due to the extenuating circumstances. When we finally got back around to do the work, we wound up adding a

Lessons Learned from a Bad Day

I had a really, really bad day this past Tuesday. I mean, a really bad day. I guess I should have seen it coming since the last #stabbytuesday was uneventful. Here's what said cosmos had in for me and the lessons I took away. Most of these are

Stubby Post - VTP Clients Send Updates

VTP clients send VLAN updates. Did you know that? I had a VTP server and client in the same VTP domain, and, when I cabled up the trunk, the client overwrote the VLAN database on the server. The moral of the story is that the best revision number will win

VTP and You

VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) is a little gem on Cisco switches that allows you configure VLANs in one place and have them appear on all of your switches. This is great for large enterprises with 8457839 switches all trunked together because who wants to configure the new VLAN for that