Today I just wanted to show you a very minimal configuration for a Cisco switch so that we can at least get our network working at White Cloud Water Company and then we can dive into some other topics in more detail.
switch1# config t
switch1(config)# interface vlan 1
switch1(config-if)# ip address 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.0
switch1(config-if)# no shutdown
switch1(config-if)# exit
switch1(config)# ip default-gateway 192.168.2.1
switch1(config)# exit
switch1# copy run start
There are actually a lot of cool things that we can do with switches, like setting up a VLAN, but you really only need to know a couple basic things for the ICND1 exam.
When you configure a switch you need to assign it an IP Address so that you can login to it remotely. Because a switch operates at Layer 2 of the OSI model it doesn’t actually care about any IP Address detail. Routers on the other hand care a lot of IP addresses. I like talking about IP addresses, I think it is because we get to learn about binary numbers in order to understand how IP addresses work.
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