Question

A network administrator issues the show vlan brief command while troubleshooting a user support ticket. What output will be displayed?

Answer 1

It will basically show a summary of the VLAN info on the switch or router. It will show what interfaces or subinterfaces are in a router or a VLAN. In addition, you can also see the ports belonging to an active VLAN in any state whether UP/DOWN or DOWN/DOWN.

Answer 2

VLAN name, status and port information will be the output for the command ‘show VLAN brief’.

Explanation:

Show VLAN brief is the same as that of Show VLAN command and it is useful to provide the VLAN information to the user. The output contains information about VLAN name, status, port.

Show VLAN brief will provide information about only the associated ports whereas show VLAN provides information about all present in the administrative domain. In a single command, VLAN information for multiple VLAN can be obtained by a VLAN id in the command separated by a comma.