Administrator Guide

Bulk Configuration
Bulk configuration allows you to determine if interfaces are present for physical interfaces or configured for
logical interfaces.
Interface Range
An interface range is a set of interfaces to which other commands may be applied and may be created if there
is at least one valid interface within the range.
Bulk configuration excludes from configuration any non-existing interfaces from an interface range. A default
VLAN may be configured only if the interface range being configured consists of only VLAN ports.
The interface range command allows you to create an interface range allowing other commands to be
applied to that range of interfaces.
The interface range prompt offers the interface (with slot and port information) for valid interfaces. The
maximum size of an interface range prompt is 32. If the prompt size exceeds this maximum, it displays (...) at
the end of the output.
NOTE: Non-existing interfaces are excluded from the interface range prompt.
NOTE: When creating an interface range, interfaces appear in the order they were entered and are not
sorted.
To display all interfaces that have been validated under the interface range context, use the show range
command in Interface Range mode.
To display the running configuration only for interfaces that are part of interface range, use the show
configuration
command in Interface Range mode.
You can avoid specifying spaces between the range of interfaces, separated by commas, that you configure
by using the interface range command. For example, if you enter a list of interface ranges, such as
interface range fo 2/0-1,te 10/0,gi 3/0,fa 0/0, this configuration is considered valid. The
comma-separated list is not required to be separated by spaces in between the ranges. You can associate
multicast MAC or hardware addresses to an interface range and VLANs by using the
mac-address-table
static multicast-mac-address vlan vlan-id output-range interface command.
Bulk Configuration Examples
Use the interface range command for bulk configuration.
• Create a Single-Range
• Create a Multiple-Range
• Exclude Duplicate Entries
• Exclude a Smaller Port Range
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