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Catalyst 2900 Series XL and Catalyst 3500 Series XL Software Configuration Guide
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Configuring the Switch Ports
This chapter provides these topics about changing the switch port settings:
• Changing the Port Speed and Duplex Mode, page 7-2
• Configuring Flooding Controls, page 7-4
• Configuring UniDirectional Link Detection, page 7-7
• Creating EtherChannel Port Groups, page 7-7
• Configuring Protected Ports, page 7-9
• Enabling Port Security, page 7-10
• Configuring SPAN, page 7-12
• Configuring Voice Ports, page 7-13
• Configuring Inline Power on the Catalyst 3524-PWR Ports, page 7-15
• Configuring the LRE Ports, page 7-16
Note From a Catalyst 2900 LRE XL switch, you can also configure the Ethernet link settings on the
Long-Reach Ethernet (LRE) customer premises equipment (CPE) devices connected to the switch LRE
ports.
Note Certain port features can conflict with one another. Review the “Avoiding Configuration Conflicts”
section on page 9-7 before you change the port settings.
For information about configuring these settings from Cluster Management Suite (CMS), refer to the
online help.
This switch software release is based on Cisco IOS Release 12.0. It has been enhanced to support a set
of features for the Catalyst 2900 XL and Catalyst 3500 XL switches. This chapter provides procedures
for using only the commands that have been created or changed for these switches. The switch command
reference provides complete descriptions of these commands. This guide does not provide Cisco IOS
Release 12.0 commands and information already documented in the Cisco IOS Release 12.0
documentation on Cisco.com.
For information about configuring these settings from Cluster Management Suite (CMS), refer to the
online help.
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