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Basic Router & Switch Command

Purpose Command
To See running config file Show   running-config  

or

sh  run  

Displays configuration saved in NVRAM Show  startup-config
To see IP info of interfaces Show  ip interface brief    
To see statistics of all interfaces Show  interfaces
To see specific item from  running configuration                      Show interface f0/0  

[Only see the info of the specific interface f0/0 ]

sh  run  | section  line 

[Only see the info of all line sections]


* If you want to see only DHCP section, nothing else
sh  run  | section  dhcp


show run | begin ip

[If you want to see from that line where ‘ip’ word is present to last line]

show run | exclude ip

[If you want to see all lines but not to expect ip word related lines]

show run | include ip

[If you want to see all lines only included ip word related lines, not others]


Displays the system clock Show  clock
Displays all users connected to the router Show  users
To Disconnect specific remote users

 or

 

To Disconnect specific  remote users

Clear   line   2

[2 means line number]

 

Clear line vty 0

To set idle time of remote session Exec-timeout  1
Displays history of Cisco IOS Show history
Displays info about Flash memory Show  flash
Displays info about loaded Cisco IOS software Show  version
Displays the ARP table of the router Show  arp
Displays the IPv4 routing table of the router Show  ip route
Displays the configured hostnames and their

corresponding IP addresses of the router

Show  host
Displays status of configured Layer 3 protocols Show  protocols
Display the CPU utilization for a Cisco device at five minute intervals. Show  process  cpu
Display the total, used and available memory on a Cisco device. Show  memory
Verify the operational status of fans, temperature and power supplies. In addition list the percentage of power supply utilization and what amount is available show environment  all
Verify that CDP is enabled, update timer, hold timer and CDP version. Show  cdp
To show remote users Show  users
To show ssh information Show  ssh
To change hostname(itbd) of a router Hostname  itbd
How to assign a Local Name(remote) to an IP address(10.1.1.1)   [we can use the configured hostname for telnet or ping.like→ telnet  remote] Ip  host  remote  10.1.1.1

 

Configure a MOTD Banner for Router banner motd  #Welcome to IT-Bangladesh#
To enable DNS lookup ip  name-server 192.168.100.10
To turn off the automatic name resolution no ip domain-lookup
To get IP info automatically Ip  add  dhcp
To resolve domain name Ip  domain-lookup
To set DNS Server IP Ip name-server  8.8.8.8
To set enable password(cisco) Enable password cisco
To set secret password Enable  secret cisco
To encrypt all password Service password-encryption
To get IP info automatically into VPCS Ip    dhcp
To set IP address(10.1.1.2/8) & Gateway(10.1.1.1) into VPCS Ip  10.1.1.2/8   10.1.1.1
Delete all routes Router#clear ip route *
To see all IP information of VPCS Show  ip
To remove all the configuration commands you entered and initialize your Cisco device’s configuration Router#erase startup-config

Router#reload

To view the logs of the Cisco devices to which you have logged in via Telnet/SSH (Execute this command from remote machine) # terminal monitor
To set Message of the day (MOTD) Banner Banner  motd ~ MOTD Banner ~
To set Login Banner Banner  login ~ Login Banner ~
To set exec Banner Banner exec ~You are authorized person ~
To set timeout session for remote clients Ip ssh time-out  5
To set authentication retries Ip ssh authentication-retries  3

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