Configuring Physical Interfaces

Cisco devices support many different types of physical (hardware) interfaces such as Gigabit Ethernet, Packet over SONET (POS), and serial shared port adapter (SPA) interfaces. For hardware technical descriptions and information about installing interfaces, refer to the hardware installation and configuration publication for your product.

Finding Feature Information

Your software release may not support all the features documented in this module. For the latest caveats and feature information, see Bug Search Tool and the release notes for your platform and software release. To find information about the features documented in this module, and to see a list of the releases in which each feature is supported, see the feature information table.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco software image support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to https://cfnng.cisco.com/. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Command Reference Information

  • Complete descriptions of the commands used to configure interfaces are included in the Cisco IOS Interface and Hardware Component Command Reference at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/interface/command/reference/ir_book.html