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Cisco ME 3800X and ME 3600X Switch Command Reference
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Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional using the Cisco IOS command-line interface (CLI) to
manage the Cisco Metro Ethernet (ME) 3800X and ME 3600X switches, hereafter referred to as the
switch. Before using this guide, you should have experience working with the Cisco IOS commands and
the switch software features. You should also have experience working with the concepts and
terminology of Ethernet and local area networking.
Purpose
If you have a service support contract and order a software license or if you order a switch, you receive
the universal software image, available in crypto an noncrypto versions. If you do not have a service
support contract, such as a SMARTnet contract, download the image from Cisco.com.
The ME 3600X supports these licenses:
• Metro IP access is the universal image.
• Advanced Metro IP access license.
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet upgrade license.
The ME 3800X supports these licenses plus a scaled license that can be installed with any of these
licenses to increase the supported values for that license, for example, more MAC addresses, VLANs,
IPv4 routes, and so on. You must purchase the scaled license.
• Metro Ethernet services is the universal image.
• Metro IP services license.
• Metro Aggregation services license.
For differences in feature support for each license, see the software configuration guide.
To install a software image, see the switch release notes and the “Working with the Cisco IOS File
System, Configuration Files, and Software Images” chapter in the software configuration guide.
This guide provides the information you need about the Layer 2 and Layer 3 commands that have been
created or changed for use with the switch. For information about the standard Cisco IOS commands, see
Master Index for Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 from this page:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
This guide does not provide procedures for configuring your switch. For detailed configuration
procedures, see the software configuration guide for this release.