Cisco CATALYST 2960 - Accessing the CLI through a Console Connection or through Telnet; Before you can access the CLI, you must connect a terminal or PC to the switch console port and power on the switch, as described in the getting started guide that shipped with your switch. Then, to understand the boot process and the options available for assigning IP information, see Chapter 3, “Assigning the Switch IP Address and Default Gateway.”; If your switch is already configured, you can access the CLI through a local console connection or through a remote Telnet session, but your switch must first be configured for this type of access. For more information, see the “Setting a Telnet Password for a Terminal Line” section on page 9-6.; Use any Telnet TCP;IP or encrypted Secure Shell (SSH) package from a remote management station. The switch must have network connectivity with the Telnet or SSH client, and the switch must have an enable secret password configured.

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define interface-range
define interface-range
Use the define interface-range global configuration command to create an interface-range macro. Use
the no form of this command to delete the defined macro.
define interface-range macro-name interface-range
no define interface-range macro-name interface-range
Syntax Description
Defaults This command has no default setting.
Command Modes Global configuration
Command History
Usage Guidelines The macro name is a 32-character maximum character string.
A macro can contain up to five ranges.
All interfaces in a range must be the same type; that is, all Fast Ethernet ports, all Gigabit Ethernet ports,
all EtherChannel ports, or all VLANs, but you can combine multiple interface types in a macro.
When entering the interface-range, use this format:
• type {first-interface} - {last-interface}
• You must add a space between the first interface number and the hyphen when entering an
interface-range. For example, gigabitethernet 0/1 - 2 is a valid range; gigabitethernet 0/1-2 is not
a valid range
Valid values for type and interface:
• vlan vlan-id , where the VLAN ID is 1 to 4094
Note Though options exist in the command-line interface to set multiple VLAN IDs, it is not
supported.
VLAN interfaces must have been configured with the interface vlan command (the show
running-config privileged EXEC command displays the configured VLAN interfaces). VLAN
interfaces not displayed by the show running-config command cannot be used in interface-ranges.
macro-name Name of the interface-range macro; up to 32 characters.
interface-range Interface range; for valid values for interface ranges, see “Usage Guidelines.”
Release Modification
12.2(25)FX This command was introduced.