Category Archives: CISCO IOS Guides

CISCO IOS network engineering, management and basic use. Learn everything about CISCO IOS here through our tutorials and guides.

See logged in users on CISCO IOS and disconnect them.

Posted on April 28, 2012 by pingd

So you may want to see who else is accessing the switch or router that you’re on. Sometimes this is because you get a write error when trying to save the running config. The error would be something like: This … Continue reading →

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Set Switch Port VLAN on CISCO IOS

Posted on September 30, 2011 by pingd

So you have created a vlan on your CISCO switch and now you want to use it with one of the switch ports. In this example we’re going to use a CISCO 2950 series switch. First you will need to … Continue reading →

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View, Delete and Create VLAN on CISCO IOS Switches

Posted on September 30, 2011 by pingd

For our purposes we will be using a CISCO 2950 switch to view our current vlans, delete an old vlan and create a new vlan. You will need to have your router configured for the vlan in question and it … Continue reading →

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Switch Port Bonding CISCO IOS

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pingd

Server Configuration (Linux: CentOS / RHEL) Login to the target server as root. This is the server you will bind two NICs on for use with the switch ports that we will port bond later in the article. Once on … Continue reading →

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Trace Ports Using NMAP to Find MAC Addresses

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pingd

Sometimes when a port number of a server is unknown, but it’s IP is up, you can find it via the mac address table that your CISCO IOS switch will output. This can be very useful when trying to switch … Continue reading →

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Service Policy Map Creation for Switch Ports

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pingd

If you have clients running off of your CISCO IOS switch or router you know that they sometimes abuse bandwidth and must be capped temporarily or permanently. What if you want to sell 10Mbit/s ports on a 100Mbit/s or even … Continue reading →

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Clear Service Policy Map for Switch Ports

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pingd

This article is related to our Set Service Policy Map for Switch Ports post which taught you how to assign policy maps to ports. Now we will teach you how to clear them! You will fist need to login to … Continue reading →

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Set Service Policy Map for Switch Ports

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pingd

So you need to set a policy map for a switch port. The most common reason is to setup a bandwidth cap on your CISCO IOS switch or router. You will first need to login to the switch in question … Continue reading →

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Enable and Disable Switch Ports

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pingd

So you have a customer that did not pay, or maybe just a server using up too much bandwidth. You need to disable that port! Login to the switch in question and verify that you know the right port to … Continue reading →

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Show MAC Address Table

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pingd

You will sometimes need to see the MAC address usage across all switch ports on your CISCO switch/router running IOS. You will first want to login to the switch in question with your username and password. To see all MAC … Continue reading →

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