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I have a new Cat 9300 stack that I’m building. I learned Cisco stuff in the early 2000s, but haven’t done any brushing up in quite a while.

I’m just curious if there’s anything new I should be using. I’m now using bpduguard on access ports, and learning about port-security.

Here’s a pretty standard config for an access port on our current switches:

interface FastEthernet1/0/6
 switchport access vlan 83
 spanning-tree portfast

Pretty sure there are things I should be using and don’t know about.

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depends on what I am trying to do !

shameless self plug , I have a CCNA user group https://community.spiceworks.com/user-groups/ccna where I go over some of this stuff.

One major way to streamline is to create portprofiles

Core_Switch-S1-R3(config)# port-profile type ethernet OurAccessPortProfiles

Core_Switch-S1-R3(config-port-prof)# no shutdown

Core_Switch-S1-R3(config-port-prof)# switchport mode access

Core_Switch-S1-R3(config-port-prof)# switchport access vlan 101

Core_Switch-S1-R3(config-port-prof)# spanning-tree port type edge

Core_Switch-S1-R3(config-port-prof)# state enabled


Core_Switch-S1-R3# show port-profile
!will show your port profiles

! now we need to assign the port profile

Core_Switch-S1-R3(config)# interface range G1/1-10
Core_Switch-S1-R3(config-if-range)# inherit port-profile OurAccessPortProfiles
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Looks like another macro or smartport? Neat!