7 April 2014 - Initial Switch Configuration

Initial Switch Configuration

• Set hostname
• Set privileged EXEC mode password (enable password xxxxx)
• Set privileged EXEC mode secret password (enable secret xxxxx)
• Configure the console and VTY lines to use a password
• Configure the Switch Management Interface on VLAN1
•                  interface vlan1
•                  set the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway
• Save Configuration

Initial Router Configuration

• Set hostname
• Disable DNS - (no ip domain-lookup)
• Set privileged EXEC mode password (enable password xxxxx)
• Set privileged EXEC mode secret password (enable secret xxxxx)
• Configure MOTD
• Configure the console and VTY lines to use a password
• Configure interfaces and static routing
•                fastethernet or gigabit
•                serial - don't forget clock rate for DCE side
• Create static route (ip route )
• Save Configuration

Configure a Routing Protocol

• remove static route
• enable routing protocol

http://computernetworkingnotes.com/switching-vlan-stp-vtp-dtp-ether-channels/configure-vlan-vtp.html