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Catalyst 3560 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Preface

Audience

This guide is for the networking professional managing the Catalyst 3560 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 Ethernet and local area networking.

Purpose

The Catalyst 3560 switch is supported by either the IP base image (formerly known as the standard
multilayer image [SMI]) or the IP services image (formerly known as the enhanced multilayer image
[EMI]). The IP base image provides Layer 2+ features including access control lists (ACLs), quality of
service (QoS), static routing, EIGRP stub routing, and the Routing Information IP services image
provides a richer set of enterprise-class features. It includes Layer 2+ features and full Layer 3 routing
(IP unicast routing, IP multicast routing, and fallback bridging). To distinguish it from the Layer 2+
static routing and RIP, the IP services image includes protocols such as the Enhanced Interior Gateway
Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol.
This guide provides procedures for using the commands that have been created or changed for use with
the switch. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed information
about these commands, see the Catalyst 3560 Switch Command Reference for this release. For
information about the standard Cisco IOS Release 12.2 commands, see the Cisco IOS documentation set
available from the Cisco.com home page at Documentation > Cisco IOS Software.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) 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 3560 Switch System Message Guide for this release and the
Catalyst 3560 Switch Hardware Installation Guide.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.