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Joe Harris, CCIE No. 6200 (R&S, Security & SP) is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems® specializing in Security. In addition to authoring Cisco Network Security Little Black Book, Joe has also been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He also assists various Certification Partners by beta testing their newest CCIE certification workbooks and has been recognized by Cisco as an SE Wall of Fame award winner.

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Daily Trivia - 12/26

December 26th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

True or False, in SSO, the NVRAM vlan.dat file sync from active SP to standby SP will still be done so that if switchover happens in the middle of sync’ing VLANs record, standby can recover by loading in the binary file from NVRAM. Since the file to file sync is only available for NVRAM, if binary file is in non-NVRAM location, e.g. bootflash:, there will not be vtp binary config file sync between active and standby. In fact, if the vlan.dat is not in NVRAM, then during standby boot up, the standby supervisor will not come online. An error message should be displayed on the active supervisor to ask users to change vlan.dat location to NVRAM.

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