Connect & Configure Cisco Networking Devices: Part 2

Table of Contents

1. Main Menu
2. Part 2: Basic Switch Operation and Configuration
3. 2.1: LAN Switching
4. LAN Switching Continued
5. 2.2: Basic Configuration Commands
6. 2.2.1: Privilege Exec Mode Commands
7. 2.2.1: Global Configuration Mode Commands
8. 2.2.3: Line Mode Commands
9. 2.3: Displaying the contents of the MAC Address Table
10. 2.4: Switch Interfaces
11. Switch Interface Configuration Continued
12. 2.5: Assigning an IP Address & Default Gateway to a 2950 Switch
13. 2.6: Configuring Port Security
14. Video: Basic Switch and Port Security Configuration
15. 2.7: The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
16. 2.7.2: STP Port States
17. 2.7.3: STP Configuration
18. Review Questions for Part 2

2.4: Switch Interfaces

Depending on the model of the Switch, there will be various interfaces fitted.

Examples of the Interfaces will include:

Fast Ethernet: prefixed - fa

Gigabit Ethernet prefixed - gi

In this course we will be using a 2950T Series Switch show in the illustration below

From Privilege Exec mode Switch# the following commands can be used

SHOW INTERFACE FASTETHERNET 0/7

This will display the basic status and configuration of the interface as shown in the screen shot below

 

SHOW INTERFACES STATUS

This command lists the status of each Interface including the Speed and Duplex settings as shown in the screen shot below

All ports on a Switch by default are in VLAN 1 (VLAN's will be covered in Part 3 of this course)

From an Interface the Speed and Duplex settings can be assigned, by default these are set to AUTO-NEGOTIATE as shown in the previous screen shot for the SHOW INTERFACES STATUS command