Cisco Show Commands
1. Display values about routing protocols and routing protocol timer information:
router#show ip protocols
2. Display ip routing table:
router#show ip route
3. Display routing protocols updates:
router#debug ip rip
router#debug ip igrp
router#debug ip eigrp
router#debug ip ospf
4. Verify OSPF Configuration:
show ip protocol
show ip route
show ip ospf interface
show ip ospf
show ip ospf neighbour detail
show ip ospf database
clear ip route*
clear ip route address
debug ip ospf
5. Verify EIGRP Configuration:
show ip protocol
show ip route
show ip eigrp neighbors (interface no) details
show ip eigrp interfaces (interface no) (as-number) details
show ip eigrp topology (as-number) (ipaddress) (mask)
show ip eigrp topology (active) (pending) (zero-successors)
show ip eigrp toplogy all-links
show ip eigrp traffic (as-number)
debug eigrp fsm
debug eigrp packet
6. Hyper Terminal Settings
Bits per second : 9600
Data bits : 8
Parity : None
Stop bits : 1
Flow control : Hardware
7. Show Port Properties:
switch#show interface fastethernet0/1
router#show interface fastethernet0/1
8. VLAN properties:
switch#show vlan
9. Show Directory Flash:
switch#directory flash:
router#show flash
10. Display IOS Version Information:
switch#show version
11. Managing Mac Address Table:
switch#show mac-address-table
switch#clear mac-address-table
12. Show running-config and startup-config
switch#show running-config
switch#show startup-config
Copy Configurations:
copy startup-config running-config
copy running-config startup-config
copy running-config tftp
copy startup-config tftp
copy flash tftp : Uploads IOS to tftp server.
copy tftp flash : Downloads IOS from tftp to flash.
13. Port Information Support:
switch#show port capabilities 2/1
14. Download and run Router Configuration from tftp server every time router start
router(config)#boot host tftp
15. Prevent debug messages output interruption while typing commands:
router(config-line)#logging synchronous
16. View CDP Information received from all routers:
router#show cdp entry
17. Command used to view port-channel information on 2950 Cataslyst switch:
switch#show etherchannel
18. Command Used to send Debug output to RAM:
router(config)#logging buffered
To View Logging :
router#show log
19. Command to display list of static and dynamic mappings between ip addresses and frame-relay DLCIs:
router#show frame-relay map
20. Command would display the status of DLCI and traffic:
router# show frame-relay pvc
21. Command used to check physical layer of interface BRI connection:
router#show interface bri 0
router#show isdn status
22. Command used in a 2950 catalyst switch to see a list of forwarding ports in
spanning tree. (Including a list of all port in each vlan , whether they are
forwarding or blocking etc:
router#show spanning-tree
23. Command to display current port status and VLAN assignment:
router#show interface status