Preface; Audience; Purpose; Conventions - Cisco Catalyst 2960 Command Reference Manual

Preface

Audience

This guide is for the networking professional using the Cisco IOS command-line interface (CLI) to
manage the Catalyst 2960 switch, hereafter referred to as the switch. Before using this guide, you should
have experience working with the Cisco IOS commands and the switch software features. Before using
this guide, you should have experience working with the concepts and terminology of Ethernet and local
area networking.

Purpose

The Catalyst 2960 switch is supported by a software image that provides enterprise-class intelligent
services such as access control lists (ACLs) and quality of service (QoS) features.
This guide provides the information that you need about the Layer 2 commands that have been created
or changed for use with the Catalyst 2960 switches. For information about the standard Cisco IOS Release
12.2 commands, see the Cisco IOS documentation set available from the Cisco.com home page by selecting
Technical Support & Documentation > Cisco IOS Software.
This guide does not provide procedures for configuring your switch. For detailed configuration
procedures, see the software configuration guide for this release.
This guide does not describe system messages you might encounter. For more information, see the
system message guide for this release.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.

Conventions

This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
Command descriptions use these conventions:
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Commands and keywords are in boldface text.
Arguments for which you supply values are in italic.
Square brackets ([ ]) means optional elements.
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