Dont get your hopes up, Im not taking sides here.

I just wanted to show how the companies differ in basic switch configuration. Now for you who dont know who Extreme is, they are the purple ones, better known as Extreme Networks. They offer some pretty nice products that compete very well with the likes of Cisco or HP. Feel free to check out their product line at http://www.extremenetworks.com/. Configuring VLANs: Extreme - Create 2 VLANs and basic configuration create vlan data configure vlan data tag 2 configure vlan data ipaddress 10.0.2.1/24 create vlan voice configure vlan voice tag 3 configure vlan voice ipaddress 10.0.3.1/24 enable ipforwarding Cisco - Create 2 VLAN interfaces and basic configuration vlan dat vlan 2 name data vlan 3 name voice exit configure terminal interface vlan 2 ip address 10.0.2.1 255.255.255.0 no shutdown interface vlan 3 ip address 10.0.3.1 255.255.255.0 Port Configuration Extreme -switch to pc on (vlan 2) configure vlan data add port 4 untagged -switch to phone (vlan 3) and PC (vlan 2) configure vlan voice add port 4 tagged configure vlan data add port 4 untagged -switch to phone (vlan 3) configure vlan voice add port 4 tagged -switch to switch configure vlan default add port 1 tagged configure vlan data add port 1 tagged configure vlan voice add port 1 tagged

Cisco (skipping configure terminal) -switch to pc on (vlan 2) interface g0/4 sw mode access sw acc vlan 2 -switch to phone (vlan 3) and PC (vlan 2) interface g0/4 switchport mode trunk switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport access vlan 2 -switch to phone (vlan 3) interface g0/4 switchport mode trunk switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q -switch to switch interface g0/4 switchport mode trunk switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q Show Commands Extreme - show port 4 information detail Cisco - show interface g0/4 Extreme - show iproute Cisco - show ip route Extreme - show edp port all Cisco - show cdp neigh Extreme - show vlan Cisco - show vlan Extreme - show fdb Cisco - show mac-address-table Extreme - show config Cisco - show run Saving your work Extreme - save Cisco - write memory Extreme - upload configuration vr vr-default 10.0.0.100 Cisco - copy start tftp Starting over Extreme - unconfigure switch all Cisco - write erase