# Administrative status of Interface on 2960 switch **URL:** \ **Category:** IP Routing\ **Created:** [May 21, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/administrative-status-of-interface-on-2960-switch/672 "2016-05-21T06:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neuralping](https://cdn-forum.networklessons.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@neuralping](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/neuralping)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/administrative-status-of-interface-on-2960-switch/672/1 "2016-05-21T06:04:05Z")
Going through a practice test and came across a question about how to view the “administrative status” of an interface on a 2960 switch. What is meant by administrative status? Is this referring to line protocol? Sample output from a show interfaces command below from my 2821 router. I was looking for a literal meaning but no administrative status found in output. GigabitEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is MV96340 Ethernet, address is xxxx.xxxx.xxxx (bia xxxx.xxxx.xxxx) Internet address is x.x.x.x/24 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit/sec, DLY 10 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set Keepalive set (10 sec) Full Duplex, 1Gbps, media type is T output flow-control is XON, input flow-control is XON ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00 Last input 00:00:19, output 00:00:08, output hang never Last clearing of “show interface” counters never Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 Queueing strategy: fifo Output queue: 0/40 (size/max) 5 minute input rate 237000 bits/sec, 22 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 10000 bits/sec, 13 packets/sec 17851054 packets input, 808989141 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 9 broadcasts (0 IP multicasts) 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored 0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input 4765722 packets output, 374766123 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets 0 unknown protocol drops 0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred 6791 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 pause output 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out Thanks ---
**Author:** ![ReneMolenaar](https://cdn-forum.networklessons.com/user_avatar/forum.networklessons.com/renemolenaar/32/488_2.png) [@ReneMolenaar](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/ReneMolenaar)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/administrative-status-of-interface-on-2960-switch/672/2 "2016-05-21T13:55:31Z")
Hi Donald, I guess they refer to the line protocol status which can be up/down/err-disabled/administratively down. Rene