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Chapter7 Configuring Interface Cha racteristics
Using the Interface Command
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gigabitethernet slot/{first port} - {last po rt}, where slot is 0
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port-channel port-channel-number - port-channel-number, where port-channel-number is
from 1 to 6
•You must add a space between the interface numbers and the hyphen when using the
interface range command. For example, the command interface range fastethernet0/1 - 5 is a
valid range; the command interface range fastethernet0/1-5 is not a valid range.
•The interface range command works only with VLAN interfaces that have been configured with
the interface vlan command (the show running-config privileged EXEC command output shows
the configured VLAN interfaces). VLAN interfaces that do not appear by using the show
running-config command cannot be used with the interface ran ge command.
•All interfaces in a range must be the same type; that is, all Fast Ethernet ports, all Gigabit Ethernet
ports, all EtherChannel ports, or VLAN interfaces.
This example shows how to use the interface range global configuration command to set the speed on
Fast Ethernet interfaces 0/1 to 0/5 to 100 Mbps:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# interface range fastethernet0/1 - 5
Switch(config-if-range)# speed 100
This example shows how to use a comma to add different interface type strings to the range to enable all
Fast Ethernet interfaces in the range 0/1 to 0/3 and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces 0/1 and 0/2:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# interface range fastethernet0/1 - 3, gigabitethernet0/1 - 2
Switch(config-if-range)# no shutdown
If you enter multiple configuration commands while you are in interface-range mode, each command is
executed as it is entered. The commands are not batched together and executed after you exit
interface-range mode. If you exit interface-range configuration mode while the commands are being
executed, some commands might not be executed on all interfaces in the range. Wait until the command
prompt reappears before exiting interface-range configuration mode.
Configuring and Using Interface-Range Macros
You can create an interface-range macro to automatically select a range of interfaces for configuration.
Before you can use the macro keyword in the interface range macro global configuration command
string, you must use the define interface-range global configuration comm and to define the macro.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to define an interface-range macro:
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 define interface-range macro_name
interface-range
Define the interface-range macro, and save it in NVRAM.
•The macro_name is a 32-character maximum character string.
•A macro can contain up to five comma-separated interface ranges.
You do not need to enter spaces before or after the comma.
•Each interface-range must consist of the same port type.