How to disable unused Cisco Access Ports

Access ports are used primarily for hosts and can only carry traffic for a single VLAN. Access Port are the frames received on the interface are assumed to not have a VLAN tag and are assigned to the specified VLAN.

Internal security policies may mandate that an unused port must be protected by several layers to disallow access to the network. (i.e, shutdown the ports)

Task: Disable interfaces Gi0/1 to G10/24 on switch7

Solution:

switch7(config)#interface range Gi0/1-24
switch7(config-if)#shutdown

See links for more explanations

http://ciscorouterswitch.over-blog.com/article-cisco-switch-port-security-how-to-configure-switch-security-100208010.html
https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/disabling-multiple-ports-on-a-3650-switch/td-p/743617

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