Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference, 12.1E
Index

Table Of Contents

Symbols - Numerics - A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - L - M - N - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V -

Index

Symbols

$ matches the end of a string 1-7

( ) in commands 1-10

* matches 0 or more sequences of a pattern 1-7

+ matches 1 or more sequences of a pattern 1-7

. matches any single character 1-7

? command 1-1

? matches 0 or 1 occurrence of a pattern 1-7

^ matches the beginning of a string 1-7

_ matches a comma (,), left brace ({), left parenthesis 1-7

" 1-10

Numerics

802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree

see MST

802.1x Authentication

See 802.1x Port Based Authentication

802.1x Port Based Authentication

allowing multiple hosts on a port 2-56

debugging 802.1x Port Based Authentication 2-28

displaying port based authentication 2-157

enabling authentication on the system 2-61

enabling manual control of the authorization state on a port 2-57

enabling periodic re-authentication of the client 2-60

initializing manually a re-authentication of all dot1x ports 2-59

initializing state machines 2-54

setting maximum number of times to send EAP requests 2-55

A

abbreviating commands

context-sensitive help 1-1

Access Control List (ACLs)

See ACLs

access lists

clearing an access template 2-13

See also ACLs, MAC ACLs, and VACLs

access maps

applying with VLAN filter 2-365

ACLs

using ACL name naming conventions in a MAC ACL 2-103

action clause

specifying drop or forward action in a VACL 2-2

adjacency

debugging the adjacency table 2-22

disabling the debug facility 2-22

displaying IPC table entries 2-22

displaying table information 2-149

aggregate policer

displaying information 2-261

aging time

displaying MAC address aging time 2-209

MAC address table 2-106

alarms

displaying operational status 2-160

alternation

description 1-9

anchoring

description 1-10

AppleTalk

See Cisco IOS AppleTalk and Novell IPX Command Reference, Release 12.1

audience xi

authentication

setting username 2-356

using an MD5-type encryption method 2-356

verifying MD5 signature 2-357

verifying the checksum for Flash memory file system 2-357

authorization state of a controlled port 2-57

B

Baby Giants

displaying the system MTU setting 2-284

setting the maximum Layer 2 payload size 2-347

BackboneFast

displaying debugging messages 2-42

displaying spanning tree status 2-276

enabling debugging 2-42

BOOT environment variable

displaying information 2-153

bootflash

displaying information 2-151

BPDUs

debugging spanning tree activities 2-41

bridge protocol data units

See BPDUs

C

Catalyst 4507R power redundancy mode 2-123

Catalyst 4507R power supply 2-121

CEF

displaying next-hop information 2-190

displaying VLAN configuration information 2-190

characters

used for searching command output 1-7

Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)

See CEF

clear commands

clearing Gigabit Ethernet interfaces 2-11

clearing IGMP group cache entries 2-14

clearing interface counters 2-9

clearing IP access lists 2-13

clearing MFIB counters and routes 2-16

clearing MFIB fastdrop entries 2-17

clearing PAgP channel information 2-19

clearing QoS aggregate counters 2-20

clearing VLAN interfaces 2-12

CLI string search

anchoring 1-10

expressions 1-7

filtering 1-6

multiple-character patterns 1-8

multipliers 1-9

parentheses for recall 1-10

searching outputs 1-6

single-character patterns 1-7

using 1-6

command modes

accessing privileged EXEC mode 1-4

exiting 1-4

understanding user EXEC and configuration modes 1-4

condition interface

debugging interface-related activities 2-24

condition vlan

debugging VLAN output 2-27

configuration, saving 1-11

configuring

root as secondary 2-315

configuring a SPAN session to monitor 2-111

configuring forward delay 2-311

configuring root as primary 2-315

CoS QoS default

defining value on an interface 2-134

Cost of Service (CoS)

See QoS CoS

counters

clearing interface counters 2-9

D

debug commands

debugging backup events 2-23

debugging DHCP snooping events 2-33

debugging DHCP snooping messages 2-34

debugging EtherChannel/PAgP/shim 2-29

debugging IPC activity 2-32

debugging NVRAM activities 2-36

debugging PAgP activities 2-37

debugging port manager activities 2-38

debugging software MAC filter updates 2-40

debugging spanning tree activities 2-41

debugging spanning tree backbonefast 2-42

debugging spanning tree uplinkfast 2-45

debugging supervisor redundancy 2-39

debugging VLAN manager activities 2-46

displaying monitor activity 2-35

displaying the adjacency table 2-22

enabling debug dot1x 2-28

enabling debugging messages that trace the activation and deactivation of ISL VLAN IDs 2-49

enabling debugging messages to be generatd by VTP 2-50

enabling debugging of UDLD activity 2-52

enabling switch shim debugging 2-43

enabling VLAN manager IOS file system error tests 2-47

limiting debugging output for a specific VLAN 2-27

limiting interface debugging output 2-24

limiting output for debugging standby state changes 2-25

taking shortcut to debug condition interface 2-31

debugging

activity monitoring 2-35

DHCP snooping events 2-33

DHCP snooping packets 2-34

IPC activities 2-32

NVRAM activities 2-36

PAgP activities 2-37

PAgP shim 2-29

PM activities 2-38

SMF address insertions and deletions 2-40

spanning tree BackboneFast events 2-42

spanning tree switch shim 2-43

spanning tree UplinkFast events 2-45

VLAN manager activities 2-46

VLAN manager IOS file system error tests 2-47

VTP protocol debug messages 2-50

debug spanning tree switch 2-43

debug sw-vlan vtp 2-50

default CoS value 2-134

default form of a command, using 1-6

defining egress DSCP-to-CoS mapping 2-137

DHCP snooping

displaying 2-191

displaying binding table 2-192

enabling DHCP globally 2-79

enabling on a VLAN 2-83

enabling option 82 2-80

enabling rate limiting on an interface 2-81

enabling trust on an interface 2-82

diagnostics

displaying Power-ON-SELF-Test (POST) results and online diagnostics 2-155

displaying inline power status 2-257

displaying monitoring activity 2-35

displaying SPAN session information 2-225

displaying SPAN software tables 2-251

document conventions xii

document organization xi

duplex mode

configuring autonegotiation on an interface 2-64

configuring full duplex on an interface 2-64

configuring half duplex on an interface 2-64

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

See DHCP snooping

E

EAP

restarting authentication process based on number of times switch sends frames 2-55

enabling debugging for UDLD 2-52

enabling voice VLANs 2-332

environmental

alarms 2-160

displaying information 2-160

status 2-160

temperature 2-160

error disable detection

displaying disable detection status 2-163

enabling error disable detection 2-66

error-disabled state

displaying 2-182

error disable recovery

configuring recovery mechanism variables 2-67

displaying recovery timer information 2-164

specifying recovery cause 2-67

EtherChannel

assigning interfaces to EtherChannel groups 2-5

debugging EtherChannel 2-29

debugging PAgP shim 2-29

debugging spanning tree activities 2-41

displaying information for a channel 2-165

removing interfaces from EtherChannel groups 2-5

EtherChannel guard

enabling detection of STP misconfiguration and displaying an error message 2-302

expressions

matching multiple expression occurrences 1-9

multiple-character patterns 1-8

multiplying pattern occurrence 1-10

single-character patterns 1-7

Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)

See EAP

F

field replaceable unit (FRU)

displaying status information 2-160

Flash memory file system

displaying file system information 2-151

verifying checksum 2-357

flow control

configuring a gigabit interface to send or receive pause frames 2-69

displaying per-interface status and statistics related to flow control 2-169

G

Gigabit Ethernet interface

clearing the hardware logic 2-11

global configuration mode

using this command mode 1-5

H

hardware Layer 3 switching

displaying adjacency table information 2-149

hardware module

resetting a module by turning the power off and then on 2-72

hot standby protocol

debugging 2-25

disabling debugging 2-25

limiting output 2-25

I

IDPROMs

displaying Serial Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory information for the chassis, supervisor engine, module, power supplies, fan trays, clock module, and mux buffer 2-171

IGMP

applying filters with a profile to control which hosts on a Layer 2 interface can join one or more IP multicast groups 2-85

clearing IGMP group cache entries 2-14

configuring frequency that the switch sends IGMP host-query messages 2-88

creating an IGMP profile 2-87

displaying IGMP interface status and configuration information 2-195

setting maximum group numbers 2-86

IGMP profiles

displaying 2-196

IGMP snooping

configuring a Layer 2 interface as a member of a group 2-97

configuring a static VLANn interface 2-97

configuring statically a Layer 2 interface as a multicast router interface for a VLAN 2-95

displaying multicast information on dynamically learned and manually configured switch interfaces 2-197

displaying VLAN information 2-198

enabling IGMP snooping 2-89

enabling IGMP snooping immediate-leave processing 2-94

enabling IGMP snooping on a VLAN 2-93

inline power

displaying inline power status 2-257

interface configuration mode, summary 1-5

interfaces

creating an interface-range macro 2-53

debugging output of interface related activities 2-24

displaying broadcast suppression discard counts 2-178

displaying description 2-180

displaying error counters 2-178

displaying error-disabled state 2-182

displaying status 2-180

displaying traffic for a specific interface 2-176

displaying trunk counters 2-178

executing a command on multiple ports in a range 2-76

setting the interface type 2-336

interface speed

configuring interface speed 2-329

Internet Group Management Protocol

See IGMP

IPC

debugging IPC activities 2-32

IP DHCP Snooping

See DHCP snooping

IP multicast

displaying multicast routing table information 2-202

IPX

See Cisco IOS AppleTalk and Novell IPX Command Reference, Release 12.1

L

Layer 2 interface type

specifying a nontrunking, nontagged single VLAN Layer 2 interface 2-336

specifying a trunking VLAN Layer 2 interface 2-336

Layer 2 switching

enabling voice VLANs 2-332

modifying switching characteristics 2-332

Layer 3 switching

displaying administrative and operational status of a Layer 3 switching port 2-183

displaying hardware multicast expansion table (MET) table entries 2-237

displaying the contents of the Layer 3 forwarding memory 2-234

M

MAC Access Control Lists

See MAC ACLs

MAC access lists

See MAC ACLs

MAC ACLs

define extended MAC access list 2-103

displaying MAC ACL information 2-291

naming an ACL 2-103

MAC address table

adding static entries 2-107

clearing dynamic entries 2-18

configuring aging time 2-106

displaying dynamic table entry information 2-211

displaying entry count 2-210

displaying information 2-207

displaying interface-based information 2-213

displaying multicast information 2-215

displaying protocol-based information 2-217

displaying static table entry information 2-219

displaying the MAC address aging time 2-209

displaying VLAN-based information 2-221

removing static entries 2-107

mapping secondary VLANs to MST instance 2-128

mapping VLAN(s) to an MST instance 2-73

match subcommand

accessing 2-7

maximum transmission unit (MTU)

displaying the system MTU setting 2-284

setting the maximum Layer 2 payload size 2-347

MD5

verifying MD5 signature 2-357

message digest 5

See MD5

MFIB

clearing ip mfib counters 2-16

clearing ip mfib fastdrop 2-17

displaying all active MFIB routes 2-199

displaying MFIB fastdrop table entries 2-201

enabling IP MFIB fastdrops 2-100

modes

See command modes

module reset

resetting a module by turning the power off and then on 2-72

--More-- prompt

filter 1-6

search 1-7

MST

designating the primary and secondary root 2-315

displaying MST protocol information 2-281

displaying region configuration information 2-281

displaying spanning tree information 2-281

entering MST configuration submode 2-309

setting configuration revision number 2-147

setting path cost and port priority for instances 2-308

setting the bridge priority and timer value 2-315

setting the bridge priority and timer value for the instance 2-315

setting the forward delay timer for all instances 2-311

setting the hello-time delay timer for all instances 2-312

setting the max-age timer for all instances 2-313

setting the MST region name 2-113

specifying the maximum number of hops in a region before a BPDU is discarded 2-314

switching between PVST+ and MST spanning tree modes 2-307

using the MST configuration submode name command 2-113

using the MST configuration submode revision command 2-147

MTU

displaying global MTU settings 2-284

Multicast Forwarding Information Base (MFIB)

See MFIB

multiple-character patterns 1-8

multiple hosts on authorized port 2-56

Multiple Spanning Tree (MST)

see MST

N

next-hop

displaying CEF VLAN information 2-190

no form of a command, using 1-6

NVRAM

debugging NVRAM activities 2-36

P

paging prompt

see --More-- prompt

PAgP

clearing port channel information 2-19

debugging PAgP activity 2-37

displaying port channel information 2-227

hot standby mode

returning to defaults 2-115

selecting ports 2-115

input interface of incoming packets

learning 2-114

returning to defaults 2-114

parentheses 1-10

password

establishing enhanced password security 2-356

setting username 2-356

PM activities

debugging 2-38

disabling debugging 2-38

Port Aggregation Protocol

See (PAgP)

port-based authentication

debug messages, display 2-28

enabling 802.1X 2-57

manual control of authorization state 2-57

multiple hosts on authorized port 2-56

periodic re-authentication

enabling 2-60

re-authenticating 802.1X-enabled ports 2-59

statistics and status display 2-157

switch-to-client frame-retransmission number 2-55

port channel

displaying information 2-227

load distribution method

resetting to defaults 2-118

setting 2-118

port-channel

accessing 2-75

creating 2-75

port range

executing 2-76

POST

See Power-On-Self-Test

Power-ON-SELF-Test (POST) results and online diagnostics

displaying diagnostics 2-155

power status

displaying 2-257

displaying inline power 2-257

displaying power status 2-257

power supply

configuring combined and redundant power on the Catalyst 4507R 2-121

configuring the power redundancy mode on the Catalyst 4507R 2-123

display power status 2-257

display Serial Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (SEEPROM) 2-171

setting inline power state 2-120

Private VLAN

See PVLANs

privileged EXEC mode, summary 1-5

prompts

system 1-5

PVLANs

configuring isolated and primary PVLANs 2-124

disabling sticky-ARP 2-101

displaying map information for VLAN SVIs 2-181

displaying PVLAN information 2-292

enabling interface configuration mode 2-336

enabling sticky-ARP 2-101

mapping a primary and secondary VLAN to the same SVI 2-126

specifying host ports 2-336

specifying promiscuous ports 2-336

PVLAN trunk

setting trunk characteristics in interface trunk mode 2-344

Q

QoS

accessing the QoS policy map configuration mode to configure a QoS policy map 2-116

attaching a policy-map to an interface 2-148

clearing global and per interface aggregate QoS counters 2-20

defining a named aggregate policer for use in policy maps 2-131

defining default CoS value on an interface 2-134

defining the ingress CoS-to-DSCP mapping for trusted interfaces 2-136

displaying aggregate policer information 2-261

displaying class maps information 2-154

displaying policy map information 2-254

displaying QoS information 2-260

displaying QoS map information 2-263

displaying queue information 2-262

displaying statistics and configurations of input and output policies attached to an interface 2-255

enabling per-VLAN QoS for a Layer 2 interface 2-142

enabling QoS global configuration mode on the switch 2-129

enabling QoS on an interface 2-130

mapping DSCP values to selected transmit queues 2-137

mapping egress DSCP-to-CoS 2-137

mapping the DSCP-to-CoS value 2-137

setting the mapping of policed DSCP values to marked down DSCP values 2-139

setting the QoS trust state on an interface 2-140

QoS CoS

defining default CoS value on an interface 2-134

question command 1-1

R

re-authenticating 802.1X-enabled ports 2-59

re-authentication

periodic 2-60

redundancy

changing from active to standby supervisor engine 2-144

displaying information 2-265

displaying redundancy facility information 2-265

displaying RF client list 2-265

displaying RF operational counters 2-265

displaying RF states 2-265

enabling automatic synchronization of the configuration files in NVRAM 2-4

entering main CPU mode to manually synchronize the configurations on the two supervisor engines 2-109

entering redundancy configuration mode to access main CPU 2-143

forcing switchover to standby supervisor engine 2-144

synchronizing automatically the primary and secondary route processor configurations 2-109

related documentation xi

resetting PVLAN trunk

setting switchport in interface configuration mode to trunk 2-336

ROM monitor mode

summary 1-6

root guard

displaying root inconsistency status 2-276

Route Processor Redundancy (RPR)

See redundancy

S

saving configuration changes 1-11

show commands

filtering parameters 1-7

searching and filtering 1-6

show platform commands

debugging chassis, module, and port information 2-229

displaing port channels in software 2-252

displaying ACL related hardware tables 2-232

displaying ACL related software state 2-247

displaying CAM related hardware tables 2-235

displaying CPU and memory utilization 2-242

displaying currently enabled log features 2-243

displaying entries in the hardware MAC address table 2-236

displaying events in CPU related software tables 2-248

displaying hardware multicast expansion table (MET) table entries 2-237

displaying information from the most recent crash 2-231

displaying memory of an address 2-244

displaying MRQ registers 2-239

displaying NVRAM environment variables 2-245

displaying QoS related hardware tables 2-240

displaying the actual hardware spanning tree (STP) state for the VLAN and interface 2-241

displaying the contents of the Layer 3 forwarding memory 2-234

displaying the mapping between front panel interfaces and internal port numbering schemes 2-246

Simple Network Management Protocol

See SNMP

single-character patterns

special characters 1-7

slaveslot0

displaying information about the file system on the standby supervisor 2-272

slot0

displaying information about the slot0

file system 2-274

SMF

debugging address insertions and deletions 2-40

SNMP

debugging spanning tree activities 2-41

software MAC filter

See SMF

SPAN commands

configuring a SPAN session to monitor 2-111

displaying hardware SPAN state 2-238

displaying SPAN session information 2-225

displaying SPAN software tables 2-251

Spanning Tree Protocol

See STP

special characters

anchoring, table 1-10

sticky-ARP

disabling on PVLANs 2-101

enabling on PVLANs 2-101

STP

configuring link type for a port 2-305

debugging all activities 2-41

debugging spanning tree activities 2-41

debugging spanning tree BackboneFast events 2-42

debugging spanning tree UplinkFast 2-45

displaying active interfaces only 2-276

displaying BackboneFast status 2-276

displaying bridge status and configuration 2-276

displaying default path cost method 2-276

displaying spanning tree debug messages 2-41

displaying status information 2-276

displaying status per VLAN 2-276

displaying summary of interface information 2-276

displaying UplinkFast status 2-276

enabling BPDU filtering by default on all PortFast ports 2-320

enabling BPDU filtering on an interface 2-298

enabling BPDU guard as a default on all PortFast ports in global configuration mode 2-322

enabling BPDU guard on an interface 2-300

enabling detection of STP misconfiguration and displaying an error message 2-302

enabling extended system ID on chassis that support 4095 MAC addresses 2-303

enabling loop guard as a default for all ports on a bridge 2-306

enabling loopguard as a default on all ports 2-306

enabling PortFast as default on all access ports 2-323

enabling PortFast mode, where the interface is put into the forwarding state upon linkup without waiting for the timer to expire 2-318

enabling root guard 2-304

enabling spanning tree BackboneFast 2-297

enabling spanning tree on a per VLAN basist 2-327

enabling spanning tree UplinkFast 2-325

set an interface priority when two bridges compete for position as the root bridge 2-324

setting default spanning tree pathcost calculation method 2-317

setting path cost on an interface for spanning tree calculations. 2-301

subinterface configuration mode, summary 1-6

SVI

creating a Layer 3 interface on a VLAN 2-78

switchport 2-344

switchport interfaces

displaying administrative and operational status of a Layer 3 switching port 2-183

switch shim

debugging 2-43

disabling debugging 2-43

switch virtual interface

See SVI

sw-vlan 2-46

system prompts 1-5

T

Tab key

command completion 1-1

tables

characters with special meaning 1-7

mac access-list extended subcommands 2-103

match syntax description 2-8

multipliers 1-9

relationship between duplex and speed commands 2-330

show vlan command output fields 2-293

show vtp command output fields 2-295

special characters 1-9

special characters used for anchoring 1-10

speed command options 2-329

TAC

displaying iinformation that is useful to TAC when they are working on a problem you have reported 2-285

TCAM

debugging spanning tree activities 2-41

temperature readings

displaying information 2-160

trunk interfaces

displaying trunk nterfaces information 2-185

TX queues

allocating bandwidth 2-349

returning to default values 2-349

setting priority to high 2-349

specifying burst size 2-349

specifying traffic rate 2-349

U

UDLD

enabling UDLD by default on all fiber interfaces.aggressive or normal mode 2-351

enabling UDLD on an individual interface 2-353

preventing a fiber interface from being enabled 2-353

resetting all ports shutdown by UDLD 2-355

setting the message timer 2-351

Unidirectional Link Detection protocol

See UDLD

user EXEC mode, summary 1-5

username

setting password and privilege level 2-356

V

VACLs

applying VLAN access maps 2-365

displaying VLAN access map information 2-291

specifying drop or forward action in a VLAN access map 2-2

specifying the match clause by selecting one or more ACLs for a VLAN access-map sequence 2-110

using a VLAN filter 2-365

VLAN

configuring a specific VLAN in configuration mode 2-359

displaying CEF information 2-190

displaying CEF next-hop information 2-190

displaying information on dynamically learned and manually configured VLAN switch interfaces 2-198

displaying Layer 2 VLAN information 2-288

displaying statistical information 2-223

displaying VLAN information 2-290

entering VLAN configuration mode 2-363

VLAN Access Control Lists (VACLs)

See VACLs

VLAN access map

See VACLs

VLAN database

resetting 2-146

VLAN debugging

limiting VLAN output for debugging

disabling debugging 2-27

VLAN manager

debugging 2-46

disabling debugging 2-46

IOS file system error tests

debugging 2-47

disabling debugging 2-47

VLANs

clearing the hardware logic 2-12

entering VLAN configuration mode 2-363

Voice VLANs

enabling voice VLANs 2-332

VTP

configuring the administrative domain name 2-368

configuring the device in VTP client mode 2-367

configuring the device in VTP server mode 2-371

configuring the device in VTP transparent mode 2-372

creating a VTP domain password 2-369

displaying domain information 2-294

displaying statistics information 2-294

enabling pruning in the VLAN database 2-370

enabling VTP version 2 mode 2-373

modifying the VTP configuration storage file name 2-366

VTP protocol code

activating debug messages 2-50

deactivating debug messages 2-50