My message for STP should have mentioned: Broadcast loops and bridge table
corruption in a broadcast domain.....
""Oliver Nadalin"" wrote in message
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> in a broadcast domain - which is defined in a switching environment
(though
> not always) by a VLAN. Thus spanning tree reduces this potential per VLAN.
I
> am sure there a myriad of other reasons..:)
>
> VTP: one of the reasons is bandwidth - your access-links (that is links
> between switches ) may become overburdened when you are forwarding traffic
> from lots of VLANs over this trunk/access-link - this is more of a problem
> when you don't need to forward some traffic over this link ie. the
switches
> on the receiving end do not have ports that are members of any of the
> VLANs - by using VTP you can remove or 'prune' those VLAN's that the
> receiving switch does not service.
>
> OSN
>
>
> ""Cisco Troubleshooter"" wrote in message
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> > can any body tell,
> >
> > why we need spanning tree protocol per vlan
> >
> > and vtp why it is needed what purpose it serves
> >
> > thnx in advance
> >
> > jd
> >
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