Cisco Catalyst 2960 enterprise switch configuration

This is a video over the Cisco Catalyst 2960 switch. I got this from one of my friends in my I.T. class. It came from a warehouse but it still seems to work as it should. Even though its used, $20 is still a good price.

Something I should have done and something you should do as well is disable the unused ports. The purpose of that is to make sure no one can just walk up to the switch and plug in their own device. This can be accomplished by going into the unused interfaces and typing "shut" or "shutdown".

For example:

switch(config)#int f0/14
switch(config-if)#shut
Vlan 1 is also the default management Vlan, so that's why I used that one.

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[g-paj]

Hey Nathan - out of all the videos I have been through, yours was the first straight forward guide to getting my 2960 on the network and attached to the internet - I did have to #no shut on WLAN 1 to get it going... nice job!

[GetShwiftyInHere]

I was just given this switch board from the company I work for sense it's outdated and I'm trying to get my Network+. This will help a lot with demonstrating my understanding of how servers are built and configured. Thank you!

[TheBenghaziRabbit]

nice dude. I got a 48 port switch myself recently so gonna get it hooked up soon with this. kudos bro

[mnaseer_pk]

Thank you for such a lovely video. I was able to access and configure the Cisco switch using the steps outlined in the video.

[asbel]

thx man, very instructive. It helps a lot with the CCNA

[javy__air]

Nathan - thank you so much for this. Way better than some of the lectures I've had from some of my professors! I hope to see more videos from you since I just hit the subscribe button! Thanks again!

[abelashenafi]

I'm learning for my CCNA and this was just Awesome man. Thanks

[jake]

Tip for anyone having issues getting the COM port to popup under Devices (Windows 10). The rollover cable I got didn't automatically install the driver for the cable at least for me. You may need to manually install it but I would check the Windows update section first and see if you have the option to install the driver from there. I was a bit confused for a while I ended up plugging the cable into a Linux box I have and everything worked. I just got the network switch and roll-over cable so had to pinpoint the cause of the issue.

[stocksj]

Thanks. This was great, I just bought a C2950-48 port switch and this helped with doing some initial configuration. I need to update my iOS next, I also couldn't try the Gen RSA keys or set ssh up yet. Waiting for a C1841 router next week and a C3560 switch and I'll be on my way to starting my CCNA training.

[torstenmuller]

I opened YouTube and my dad has been looking at this

[chrisgingras]

Hey just an FYI your enable secret (password) is already encrypted and is a stronger encryption then service password-encryption. Service password-encryption encrypts all passwords that are in plain text. Enable password command would be plain text, enable secret, is already tell you it will be encrypted. So far good video

[rhdtv]

Getting one too for cheap but not familiar with Cisco switches. I do have a question and you may have a video on it..if for instance you want to export the config file how would you do that and then import it - just in case something happens you can load into another similar switch of Cisco

[lawrenceoliva]

Hey man are you able to provide a link to buy that bracket? I've been having a hard time finding brackets .

[ProductsForMen]

Hi there, Great Vid. I'm just wondering if you can help me out by giving some pointers. I ended up buying the router you got which is almost the same mode - WS-C2960S-24PS-L. My question is, can you hook up your router using the SFP port to this switch that serves as uplink/downlink instead of using one of the 24 ports in the switch? My plan is to get rid of my ISP fiber modem and replace with GPON router that comes with 4 LAN ports. I noticed my switch have 4 SFP ports and wondering if I can hook them all to my router using SFP transceiver. What do you think? Thanks.

[xoxoomar]

This helps a lot. Can you please explain on which assumption you chose the IP address and MASK?

[orion]

I have tried doing the RSA generation key but whenever I do "do show run" the key doesn't show and when I do "sh ip ssh"

[kakoozalawrence]

Thanks a lot boss. Great video! i have learnt a lot.

[Nebularh]

I just got one of these switches from work to tinker about on but when i open a putty session, it just has the green bar and when i press enter, nothing happens. Would you know why?

[enmanueltejada]

Does it matter where i plug in from my router to the switch? Can i use any port or is there a specific one i should use?

[alisalman]

Update: I found it, it's just cisco!


I purchased a similar switch but without the Gb ports from amazon just for practicing purpose when I pressed the mode button for 3 seconds I got all the LEDs solid green which suppose to mean it wasn't configured before however when I try to access the privilege exec mode it asking for password, is there a default password I can use? I checked the manual and it says that there should be none at initial config