For many years I have been a consultant for different companies and have written books on switch and router configurations and troubleshooting. During my years as a consultant I have had to either install, administer, or troubleshoot switching problems and configurations for switches without a good handbook. I have constantly gone through bookstores looking for a book on Cisco switch troubleshooting and configurations that didn’t deal with a Cisco curriculum. Guess what? I couldn’t find one! | CISCO Switching Black Book Scan Odom Hamon Nottingham ịỹ CORIOUS Table of Contents Cisco Switching Black Is This Book for You .4 How to Use This The Black Book Chapter 1 Network Switching In Physical Media and Switching A Bit of Networking The Pieces of Network Collision Broadcast Why Upgrade to Switches .16 Switched Switched Network The Rule of the Network Switched Ethernet Full-Duplex Ethernet .23 Fast Ethernet .23 Gigabit The Cisco Connecting to the Powering Up the The Today s Entering and Exiting Privileged EXEC Entering and Exiting Global Configuration Entering and Exiting Interface Configuration Entering and Exiting Subinterface Configuration Saving Configuration Chapter 2 Basic Switch In Command-Line Campus Hierarchical Switching Access Distribution Core Remote Network Monitoring .33 Connecting to the Console Console Cable Console i Table of Contents Chapter 2 Basic Switch Configuration The RJ-45-to-AUX Port Console Connector Switch The IOS Configuration Limiting Telnet Implementing Privilege Configuring an IOS-Based CLI Setting the Login Setting Privilege Assigning Allowable Setting the Console Port Time-out Configuring the Telnet Time-out Configuring the Configuring the Date and Configuring an IP Address and Configuring a Default Route and Configuring Port Speed and Enabling SNMP Configuring a Set Clear-Based CLI .