Welcome back everyone, and we're going to talk about is VTP pruning. That's exactly we're going to talk about, because the packet tracer does not support. Okay, so what is pruning? pruning is like traffic shaping, okay? what you're trying to do is trying to make the bandwidth more efficient as it goes to the trunks. So you want to get rid of unnecessary traffic because you do have like it says there broadcast multicast, all sorts of traffic and you guys really have all that stuff going through there.
Okay, so you can make a decision on what you want to allow or not allow to get through there. Right. And you do that by list and we'll look at that next. All right, but uh, VTP pruning occurs as an extension, just so you know, to VTP version one using an additional VTP message types, okay. But pruning is just that pruning. Okay, I want to this information does not need to go across.
So let's let's remove it or this, this information doesn't go across. So let's add this to a list. And that's what this is, when you enable VTP pruning, the first thing you do is you go to global configuration, you go VTP pruning, they went to the interface, and you're going to say, switch port trunk because it's going across a trunk link, pruning VLAN. And you can put a VLAN list what type you're going to, or you want to add a VLAN list or as an exception to the pruning, or you want to remove them altogether or there's not going to be any not. Okay, so this is what allows you to kind of control the type of traffic that's going to go through there to make it more efficient. I look at pruning, as when you're actually pruning your hedge.
Not that I do it. But when you're pruning your hedge that you're all the leaves are going all over the place, whatever all branches, so you cut over there nice and even in a straight line. Everything looks nice and pretty. The same thing here for your traffic. You want to do away with unnecessary traffic that you don't need. You want to streamline that traffic so things can go a lot quicker.
All right. That's what pruning does. In a nutshell. All right. That's all for now. No, maybe the the command for you not going to have a lab on that.
No, you know that there's add except remove whatever normal as we're pruning is but is basically traffic shaping. Keep those tours in mind. traffic shaping. That's what breeding does does its job, its goal, what it's for. Alright. See you in the next