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Chapter 11 Configuring Interface Characteristics
Configuring Ethernet Interfaces
These sections describe the default interface configuration and the optional features that you can
configure on most physical interfaces:
•
Default Ethernet Interface Configuration, page 11-9
•
Configuring Interface Speed and Duplex Mode, page 11-10
•
Configuring Media Types for Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces on LRE Switches, page 11-13
•
Configuring IEEE 802.3z Flow Control on Gigabit Ethernet Ports, page 11-13
•
Adding a Description for an Interface, page 11-14
Default Ethernet Interface Configuration
Table 11-1
shows the Ethernet interface default configuration. For more details on the VLAN parameters
listed in the table, see
Chapter 17, “Configuring VLANs.”
For details on controlling traffic to the port,
see
Chapter 22, “Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control.”
Table 11-1
Default Ethernet Interface Configuration
Feature
Default Setting
Operating mode
Layer 2.
Allowed VLAN range
VLANs 1 to 1005 with the SI installed or 1 to 4094 with the
EI installed.
Default VLAN (for access ports)
VLAN 1.
Native VLAN (for 802.1Q trunks)
VLAN 1.
VLAN trunking
Switchport mode dynamic desirable (supports DTP).
Port enable state
All ports are enabled.
Port description
None defined.
Speed
Autonegotiate.
Duplex mode
Autonegotiate.
Flow control
Flow control is set to off for receive and desired for send for
Gigabit Ethernet ports.
EtherChannel (PAgP) and Link
Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Disabled on all Ethernet ports. See
Chapter 31, “Configuring
EtherChannels.”
Port blocking—unknown multicast and
unknown unicast traffic (Catalyst 2950
LRE switches only)
Disabled (not blocked). See the
“Configuring Port Blocking”
section on page 22-5
.
Broadcast, multicast, and unicast storm
control
Disabled. See the
“Default Storm Control Configuration”
section on page 22-2
.
Protected port
Disabled. See the
“Configuring Protected Ports” section on
page 22-4
.
Port security
Disabled. See the
“Default Port Security Configuration”
section on page 22-9
.
Port Fast
Disabled.
Media Type (Catalyst 2950 LRE
switches only)
SFP module preferred.