A Few Easy Steps: Cisco IOS, Configure Loopback Interface

A Few Easy Steps- (6)In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will Setup a Loopback address on a Cisco Switch.
In General this will work on any L3 Cisco IOS Device.

Session Prerequisites:

  • You have a Cisco Console Cable
  • You have a serial port
  • You have a Terminal Program that you can access your Serial Port

Session Assumptions:

  • We are setting up Loopback0
  • The IP Address is 10.92.254.1 /24

Our goals of this session are:

  • Create Loopback Interface
  • Set IP Address

Create Loopback Interface

!
conf t
!
interface loopback 0
!
no shut
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config

Set IP Address

!
conf t
!
interface loopback0
!
ip address 10.92.254.1 255.255.255.0
!
end
copy running-config startup-config

Find out more about LoopBack Interfaces in Cisco IOS here.

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