VTP is a protocol which is used by Cisco switches to maintain database between switches for trunking purposes. VTP is not required for VLAN creation; however, Cisco has set it up to act as a medium for VLAN configuration between switches, which can help in VLAN administration. Enable VTP In this example a new VTP [...]

Enable Trunking The first step is to create a trunk port for connection and information sharing between different VLANS and switches. Trunking on a port is enabled through interface configuration mode for the desired port. These are three basic commands for this configuration: Switch1#configure terminal Switch1(config)#interface f 0/26 Switch1(config-if)#trunk on Create VLANs To create a [...]

In this file configuration are given for MAC Auth By-pass for Cisco catalyst 2960 switch. Which is basically used as the replacement of IEEE 802.1x for those devices which don’t support this Standard. dot1x mac-auth-bypass dot1x max-reauth-req 3 dot1x timeout quiet-period 5 dot1x tx-period 5 aaa authorization network default group radius

In this tutorial IEEE 802.1x port based authentication is configured on CISCO catalyst 2960 switch. first of all here RADIUS server is configured with its ports and the 802.1x is enabled on 2nd port of this switch. The switch is basically used to connect multiple devices. Here catalyst 2960 switch is playing the role of [...]