Nine Switch Commands Every Cisco Network Engineer Needs to Know
1. hostname Syntax: hostname hostname One of the most basic network commands, hostname configures the hostname used for a device. This hostname identifies the device to other locally connected devices for protocols such as the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), which helps in the identification of devices attached directly to the network. Although it is not case-sensitive, the hostname must follow certain rules: It must begin with a letter and end in a letter or digit, and interior characters must be letters, digits, or hyphens (-). 2. ip default-gateway Syntax: ip default-gateway gateway The ip default-gateway command configures the default gateway for a switch when IP routing is not enabled (with the ip routing global configuration command), which is typical when lower-level Layer 2 switches are being configured. The easiest way to determine whether IP routing has been enabled is to r...