ICND2 VTP GNS3 Configuration LAB

How to configure Vlan Trunking Protocol on Gns3

Question

This GNS3 lab is related to VLAN Trunk Protocol, in which you have two switches Switch-1 and Switch-2 and you need to configure the Switch-2 according to following requirement:

1. Determine and configure the gateway and last IP address on vlan-interface from subnet 192.168.33.32\27
2. Find and configure the same VTP domain on switch-2 as on Switch-1. (Switch-1 has the domain “City-Campus”)
3. Configure Switch-2 as VTP Client

Solution: how to configure this Lab:

You can configure this on GNS3 very easily, according to question Router and Switch-1 are already configured. You can complete this lab by creating the above topology in GNS3 and then you can download router and switch-1configurations from here, paste them on router and switch-1 respectively and complete it with following configurations:

GNS3 version: 0.8

Switch IOS: C3725-AD.BIN download from here

Determine and configure the gateway and last IP address from subnet 192.168.33.32\27:

For finding the gateway and vlan IP address on Switch-1 you can use the command “show run”

Switch-1#show running-config

From above out-put you can see that vlan-subnet on switch-1 is 192.168.33.50\27 and from subnetting you can find the valid IP addresses for this subnet:

Subnetting for Class C address
Bit# in 4th octet	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
IP ranges/ increment	128	64	32	16	8	4	2	1

From above table we have the following details:

Subnet ID= 192.168.33.32

Broadcast Address=192.168.33.63

Valid IPs= 192.168.33.33 to 192.168.33.62

So we have 192.168.33.62 the last IP address for given subnet.

Switch-2#config t

Switch-2(config)#int Vlan1
Switch-2(config-if)#ip address 192.168.22.62 255.255.255.224
Switch-2(config-if)#no shut

Switch-2(config-if)#exit
Switch-2(config)#ip default-gateway 192.168.22.35

Find and configure the same VTP domain on switch-2

For VTP domain of switch-1, you can use the “show vtp status” command on Switch-1.

switch-1# show vtp status

We have find that VTP-domain of switch-1 is “City-Campus”. For configuring the same domain you can use the following commands:

Switch-2#config t

Switch-2(config)#vtp domain City-Campus

Configure Switch-2 as VTP Client

You can set Switch02 as VTP client by using command: “vtp mode client” or "vtp client"

Real Switch Configurations	if you are configuring it on GNS3
Switch-2#config t Switch-2(config)#vtp mode client Switch-2(config)#vtp domain City-Campu	Switch2#vlan database Switch2(vlan)#vtp client Switch2(vlan)#vtp domain City-Campus

How to Test or Confirm lab configurations on GNs3:

Create some vlan on switch1, if your configurations are complete then it will automatically create that vlan on Switch2 as well. (Switch2 is VTP client therefore it will sync its vlan database from switch1 which is VTP server)

Switch1#vlan database

Switch1(vlan)#vlan 11

After creating vlan 11 on switch1, Show vlan-switch on switch2 should have following configurations:

If you have some issue with your lab then you can download Switch2 configuration from here and can compare with your for troubleshooting.