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Port Status and Basic Configuration

Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names

■ In a port listing, not assigned indicates that the port does not have a name

assignment other than its fixed port number.

■ To retain friendly port names across reboots, you must save the current

running-configuration to the startup-config file after entering the friendly

port names. (In the CLI, use the write memory command.)

Configuring Friendly Port Names

Syntax: interface <port-list> name <port-name-string>

Assigns a port name to port-list.

no interface <port-list> name

Deletes the port name from port-list.

Configuring a Single Port Name. Suppose that you have connected port 3

on the switch to Bill Smith’s workstation, and want to assign Bill’s name and

workstation IP address (10.25.101.73) as a port name for port 3:

Figure 10-13. Example of Configuring a Friendly Port Name

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