Installation guide

Cisco HWIC-4ESW and HWIC-D-9ESW EtherSwitch Interface Cards
How to Configure EtherSwitch HWICs
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Cisco IOS Release 12.3(8)T4
OL-6454-01
How to Configure EtherSwitch HWICs
See the following sections for configuration tasks for the EtherSwitch HWICs.
• Configuring VLANs, page 5
• Configuring VLAN Trunking Protocol, page 9
• Configuring Layer 2 Interfaces, page 11
• Configuring 802.1x Authentication, page 18
• Configuring Spanning Tree, page 26
• Configuring MAC Table Manipulation, page 32
• Configuring Cisco Discovery Protocol, page 34
• Configuring the Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), page 36
• Configuring Power Management on the Interface, page 37
• Configuring IP Multicast Layer 3 Switching, page 39
• Configuring IGMP Snooping, page 42
• Configuring Per-Port Storm-Control, page 46
• Configuring Stacking, page 47
• Configuring Fallback Bridging, page 48
• Configuring Separate Voice and Data Subnets, page 59
• Managing the EtherSwitch HWIC, page 61
Configuring VLANs
This section describes how to configure VLANs on the switch, and contains the following sections:
• Adding VLAN Instances, page 5
• Deleting a VLAN Instance from the Database, page 8
Adding VLAN Instances
A total of 15 VLANs are supported by an EtherSwitch HWIC.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure a Fast Ethernet interface as Layer
2 access:
SUMMARY STEPS
1. vlan database
2. vlan vlan _ id
3. exit