range of interfaces

nmilot

Exam is on Tuesday, spending the majority of these next few days studying.

Again, this cisco press book is causing me to doubt something that I thought I knew for sure.

When you want to specify a range of interfaces, putting interfaces fa0/5 -fa0/8 in vlan 2 for example, what is the proper syntax?

I always thought it was:

int range fa0/5 - 8

I'm taking the cisco press ICND practice test (with all updates), and it says it is possible to configure a range of interfaces with this command: "int fa0/5 - 8"

Is that possible? I use this command a lot at work, and I've always had to enter the word "range."

Sa'ad

Hi, the best way to be for sure is to try it on your switches if you have real switches, to be sure.

Otherwise I used about 3 different books and I've seen the correct config to be the

int range fa0/1 - 8 format.

Here I used the sybex 5, and kind of went over the new exam prep from exam cram and cisco's ccna command refernce they all have the above format ( int range fa0/1 - 6 etc.. )

Unfortunately, I don't have real switches I'm using the Boson netsim and this software has lots of bugs so I don't want to base my opinion on it but based on the 3 books I read they've only mentioned the 1 format above.

I hope this helps.

nmilot

Thanks for the input. I was pretty sure you did need the "range" keyword. I would have confirmed for myself with one of the switches at work, but I'm not back there until after my exam.