two books, different answers

Longbow · February 2005

I have two books I'm working from.

1) Todd Lammle's CCNA Study Guide 4th addition
2) Richard Deal's Cisco Study Guide by McGraw Hill

I was asked a question on configuring an IP address on a 2950 switch (on a practice test). This is performed on vlan1 and both books state this. However the question was what the prompt is at this point. Todd Lammle's book says that it is:

Todd2950C(config-if)# chapter 7 page 334

Richard Deal's book says that it is:

2950(config-vlan)# chpater 7 page 310

Is it (config-if) or (config-vlan)??

I ran it through my boson simulator and it comes up (config-if). Can someone with a real switch verify this for me?

Thanks

Incidently, this stuff is difficult enough with out having recourses that can't agree with one another.

kplab · February 2005

The ip address command should be issued under (config-if)#. An example is shown in the Cisco 2950 Swtich Command Reference:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat2950/12122ea2/2950cr/cli1.htm#wp2082452

nanoage · February 2005

deffinatlley interface

Longbow · February 2005

Thanks for the info kplab and nanoage.

When the Bosen simulator used config-if I figured this was probably the right responce - now all doubt is removed.

I've found other descrepencies between these two books, it drives me nuts.

Longbow

two books, different answers

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