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Lesley Carhart :unverified: | 7 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 The number of cases I have that are "China" but are actually VTP,
Do not use VTP
Never use VTP
especially in your legacy industrial environments
somebody is gonna plug a switch in
send toot
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Interpipes 💙 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 you mean people actually use it on purpose!? 

I guess it might be the sort of thing that is maybe tempting to use in an enterprise environment if you haven't understood how it works and the resulting risks.

Fortunately I learned with "service provider mindset" as we acquired a SP network with some Cisco in it ~20 years ago and when I took the cisco press books on holiday to learn how to run my new network, the immediate determination on VTP was: "no, never that"