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What should have been default on Cisco devices

Some things on Cisco switches and routers never should have been on by default. Other things should have been turned on or set differently. This is not how I want them to be configured in the end (I like CDP for example), just how I think they should have been configured from the factory. (not all commands are supported on all switches/routers. Just ignore error messages from those settings) vtp mode transparent service timestamps debug datetime msec localtime show-timezone service timestamps log datetime msec localtime show-timezone service sequence-numbers service password-encryption snmp-server ifindex persist no service dhcp logging buffered 1048576 debugging spanning-tree portfast default spanning-tree extend system-id no ip domain-lookup no ip source-route no ip bootp server no ip finger no cdp run no ip http server no ip http secure-server no ip https server no https server vlan dot1q tag native int range fa0/1 - 24 switchport ...