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- VTP Pruning provides a way to preserve bandwidth by configuring switches to only send<br />

broadcasts and unknown unicasts to the trunks to other switches that need the information<br />

(contain ports in a particular VLAN). VTP pruning is disabled by default, which means<br />

broadcasts and unknown unicasts in every VLAN is forwarded to all switches in the network.<br />

Ex: SW1 does not have any ports configured for VLAN 2, thus broadcasts sent to VLAN 2<br />

should not be forwarded to the trunk to SW1 (pruning flooded traffic to conserve bandwidth).<br />

Note: VLAN 1 can never be pruned because it is an administrative VLAN.<br />

- The [no] vtp pruning privileged or global configuration command is used to enable or disable<br />

VTP pruning respectively. VTP pruning only need to be enabled on a single VTP server mode<br />

switch throughout a VTP domain. VTP pruning utilizes VLAN advertisements for its operation.<br />

- Note: VTP pruning requires all switches in the VTP domain to be configured in server mode,<br />

which can create havoc if multiple administrators are making VLAN changes on multiple server<br />

switches at the same time.<br />

- When PVST is in use, STP optimization for each VLAN and VTP pruning are important to<br />

ensure STP changes that occur in a particular VLAN will not affect other STP instances for other<br />

VLANs, which results in a more stable network.<br />

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Copyright © 2008 Yap Chin Hoong<br />

yapchinhoong@hotmail.com

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