Welcome to your first review day. I told you that you’d have plenty of time for going over previous lessons!
We have covered pretty much everything you need to know to get through the ICND1 exam. If you are doing the full CCNA exam, then you still need to review everything you have learned so far. I don’t want to dwell on the more ambiguous areas, such as the OSI model or CSMA/CD, because they are less likely to come up in the exam, and because the few facts you need to know should be easily remembered AND you can review them in the cram guide.
Connect to the switch using a console connection. Connect a PC to the switch or connect the switch to the FastEthernet port on a router:
1. Add port security to an interface on the switch
2. Hard set the MAC address of the PC/router interface as the permitted address
3. Ensure that the switch interface is up (and an IP address is on the PC)
4. Set the port security violation action to “restrict”
5. Change the MAC address of the PC, or plug in another machine
6. Issue a show port-security interface x command on the switch
Solution Hints and Commands
Before configuring port security, it is recommended that the switch port be statically configured as a Layer 2 access port. This configuration is illustrated in the following output:
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