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Chapter 9 Configuring Interfaces
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces
Monitoring and Maintaining Interfaces
You can perform the tasks in the following sections to monitor and maintain interfaces:
•
Monitoring Interface Status, page 9-17
•
Clearing Counters on an Interface, page 9-17
•
Resetting an Interface, page 9-18
•
Shutting Down and Restarting an Interface, page 9-18
Monitoring Interface Status
The software contains commands that you can enter at the EXEC prompt to display information about
the interface including the version of the software and the hardware and statistics about interfaces. The
following table lists some of the interface monitoring commands. (You can display the complete list of
show
commands by using the
show ?
command at the EXEC prompt.) These commands are described
in the
Cisco IOS Interface Command Reference
publication.
To display information about the interface, perform these tasks:
This example shows how to display the status of Fast Ethernet port 5/5:
Router#
show protocols fastethernet 5/5
FastEthernet5/5 is up, line protocol is up
Router#
Clearing Counters on an Interface
To clear the interface counters shown with the
show interfaces
command, perform this task:
Command
Purpose
Router#
show ibc
Displays current internal status information.
Router#
show eobc
Displays current internal out-of-band information.
Router#
show interfaces
[
type slot/port
]
Displays the status and configuration of all or a specific
interface.
Router#
show running-config
Displays the currently running configuration.
Router#
show rif
Displays the current contents of the routing information field
(RIF) cache.
Router#
show protocols
[
type slot/port
]
Displays the global (system-wide) and interface-specific
status of any configured protocol.
Router#
show version
Displays the hardware configuration, software version, the
names and sources of configuration files, and the boot images.
Command
Purpose
Router#
clear counters
{{
vlan
vlan_ID
} |
{
type
1
slot/port
} | {
port-channel
channel_ID
}}
Clears interface counters.