VTP

VTP Pruning Explained: Optimizing VLAN Broadcast Traffic

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When your network has multiple VLANs, it’s common to see unnecessary broadcast and multicast traffic moving across every trunk link – even to switches that don’t have hosts for that VLAN. This wastes valuable bandwidth. That’s exactly what VTP Pruning is designed to prevent. It’s a smart feature that helps your switches send VLAN traffic … Read more

VTP – VLAN Trunking Protocol

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Understanding VTP (VLAN Trunking Protocol): The Backbone of VLAN Management Introduction Imagine you’re managing a large campus network with dozens of switches, each supporting multiple VLANs.Now, think about the amount of manual work required to create or delete VLANs on every single switch one by one.Sounds exhausting, right? This is where VTP (VLAN Trunking Protocol) … Read more