Adding a Description

The router enables you to add a text description or an alias to a static IP interface or subinterface. Adding a description helps you identify the interface and keep track of interface connections. If no IP interface currently exists, then a static IP interface is automatically created on the current layer 2 interface and the description is applied to that static IP interface. You cannot assign a profile to a layer 2 interface that has a static interface configured above it.

Note: The ip description command is replacing the description command to assign a description to a static IP interface.

ip description

• Use to assign a text description or an alias to an IP interface or subinterface.
• The description or alias can be a maximum of 256 characters.
• Use the show ip interface command to display the text description.
• Example 1

  host1(config-if)#ip description canada01 ip interface

• Example 2

  host1(config-subif)#ip description montreal011 ip subinterface

• Use the no version to remove the text description or alias.
• See ip description

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