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Cisco commands

Cisco commands

From the course: CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) Cert Prep

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Cisco commands

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- Welcome to the world of Cisco. Now, I do realize, and we all realize that CompTIA is a very vendor-neutral organization, but the exam has placed a couple of commands that you need to understand, know how to use, and they're very basic commands, so I don't want you to get too intimidated, and those commands can be performed on Cisco devices. So before we get started, let me show you my setup I have here. I have an old, we're going old school today. I have an old Cisco Catalyst 2950 Switch. I have my laptop, and here I have a console cable, or a rollover cable, or better known as a Yost cable. That's a very interesting word, Yost. It sounds like I bought this on Tatooine at the Mos Eisley Cantina. But anyway, we're going to connect this up. So there's a console port on the back of your Switch, and we just connect it here. Oh, a little nub is broken off this cable. That's not good. And normally, the other end is serial, but because serial is so outdated, they have these converters. So…

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