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VTP

bilalccna
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hi

VTP advertisements are sent over factory default VLAN (VLAN1) using multicast frames.

Why multicast frames why not broadcast frames.

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Prashanth Krishnappa
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VTP is cisco proprietary protocol and uses a multicast MAC address which other Cisco devices can understand. BTW, why would you want it to be a broadcast?

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