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To enter Enable (or privileged) mode, type enable and enter a password when prompted (the default is 1234). When you enter the Enable mode, the command prompt changes to the pound sign (#).

To enter the configuration mode, type configure or config. The Configure mode command prompt consists of the word “config” and the pound sign (#). There are various sub configuration modes: interface, router and VLAN.

• To enter config-vlan mode, type vlan followed by a number (between 1 to 4094). For example, enter vlan 10 to configure settings for VLAN 10.

•To enter config-interface mode and configure the ports, enter interface port- channel followed by a port number. For example, interface port-channel 10.

•To configure the routing domain, enter interface route-domain followed by the domain IP address and subnet mask bits (for example, interface route-domain 192.168.1.1/24).

•Use the router commands to configure the routing protocol settings.

Enter exit or logout to quit from the current mode or log out from the CLI.

40.7 Using Command History

The switch keeps a list of up to 256 commands you have entered for the current CLI session. You can use any commands in the history again by pressing the up (y) or down (z) arrow key to scroll through the previously used commands and press [ENTER]. Use the history command to display the list of commands.

Figure 157 CLI: History Command Example

ras> history enable exit show ip history

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40.8 Saving Your Configuration

After you set the switch settings with the configuration commands, use the write memory command to save the changes permanently.

Figure 158 CLI: write memory

ras# write memory

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