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Catalyst 2960 Switch SoftwareConfiguration Guide
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Preface

Audience

This guide is for the networking professional managing the Cat alyst 2960 switch, hereafter referred to
as the switch. Before using this guide, you should have experience working with the Cisco IOS software
and be familiar with the concepts and terminology of E thernet and local area networking.

Purpose

This guide provides the information that you need to configure Cisco IOS software features on your
switch. The Catalyst 2960 software provides enterprise-class intelligent services such as access control
lists (ACLs) and quality of service (QoS) features.
This guide provides procedures for using the commands that have been created or c hanged for use with
the Catalyst 2960 switch. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed
information about these commands, see the Catalyst 2960 Switch Command Reference for this release.
For information about the standard Cisco IOS Release 12.2 commands, see the Ci sco IOS documentation
set available from the Cisco.com home page at Technical Support & Documentation > Cisco IOS
Software.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the graphical user interfaces (GUI s) for the
embedded device manager or for Cisco Network Assistant (hereafter referred to as Network Assistant)
that you can use to manage the switch. However, the concepts in this guide are applicable to the GUI
user. For information about the device manager, see the switch online help. For information about
Network Assistant, see Getting Started with Cisco Network Assistant, available on Cisco.com
This guide does not describe system messages you might encounter or how to install your switch. For
more information, see the Catalyst 2960 Switch System Message Guide for this release and to the
Catalyst 2960 Switch Hardware Installation Guide.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.