Completely Clearing a Cisco Switch...The Easy Way!

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Clearing out a Cisco switch configuration is always a pain because VLANs are kept in a seperate file from the startup-config (NVRAM). There's two ways to clear a switch back to the factory defaults - the easy way and the REALLY easy way:

The easy way -
Switch# write erase
Switch# delete flash:vlan.dat
Switch# reload

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