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Chapter9 Configuring Interface Cha rac teristics Configuring Layer 2 Interfaces
All interfaces in a range must be the same type; that is, all Fast Ethernet ports, all Gigabit Ethernet
ports, all EtherChannel ports, or all VLANs, but you can combine multiple interface types in a
macro.
This example shows how to define an in terface -range ma cro named enet_list to select Fast Ethernet ports
1 to 4 and to verify the macro configuration:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# define interface-range enet_list fastethernet0/1 - 4
Switch(config)# end
Switch# show running-config | include define
define interface-range enet_list FastEthernet0/1 - 4
This example shows how to create a multiple-inte rface m a cr o n amed macro1:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# define interface-range macro1 gigabitethernet0/1 - 2, fastethernet0/5 - 7
Switch(config)# end
Switch#
This example shows how to enter interface range configuration mode for the interface-range macro
enet_list:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# interface range macro enet_list
Switch(config-if-range)#
This example shows how to delete the interface-range macro enet_list and to verify that it has been
deleted.
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# no define interface-range enet_list
Switch# show run | include define
Configuring Layer 2 Interfaces
These sections describe the default interface configuration and the optional features that you can
configure on most physical interfaces:
Default Layer 2 Ethernet Interface Configuration, page 9-9
Configuring Interface Speed and Duplex Mode, page 9-10
Configuring IEEE 802.3X Flow Control on Gigabit Ethernet Ports, page 9-12
Adding a Description for an Interface, page 9-13

Default Layer 2 Ethernet Interface Configuration

Table 9 -1 shows the Layer 2 Ethernet interface default configuration. For more details on the VLAN
parameters listed in the table, see Chapter13, Configuring V LANs. For details on controlling traffic
to the port, see Chapter17, Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control.