You are working as a trainee at a large African safari company and acquired the task of setting up VTP (Vlan Trunking Protocol). You need to create a bunch of VLANS and it would be a shame if you had to do everything by hand, let's see if you can find a faster and more scalable solution.
Create the following VLANS on switch Bobcat:
VLAN 10: name Tigers
VLAN 20: name Lions
VLAN 30: name Panthers
Configure the interfaces between the switches as trunks.
Configure switch Bobcat to be the VTP server.
Configure switch Panther to be a VTP client.
Configure switch Tiger so it does not synchronise itself to the lastest VTP information, it should forward advertisements to switch Panther though.
Change the VTP domain name to "GNS3Vault".
Use the password "Vault" for VTP.
Make sure there is no unnecessary vlan traffic flooded on the trunk links.
c3725-adventerprisek9-mz.124-15.T7.bin
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Hi Rene,
Nice and simple lab...I just have a question though.
When setting up a password in VTP, does it have to be typed on the client as well or just the server?
I also noticed that transparent mode switches doesn't forward the data it receives if it's on a different domain? at first, i forgot to set the domain for tiger that's why I was wondering why switch panther didn't receive the revisions from bobcat.
why is that?
Hi Rito,
The VTP domain and password have to match on all devices. If a device has no domain name (null) it will automatically configure itself with the same domain name.
It makes sense to use the same domain name otherwise anyone could run a VTP transparent and forward VTP advertisements to anywhere in the network 
Rene
