From: routerjocky (elouie@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 04:01:19 GMT-3
my fav abbrs r:
s ip b n
s ip o n
s ip o i
s ip o
s di
s isdn s
s deb
s ip ei n
s cdp n
s ip ro
s ip int brief <--- just in case there's a bri interface - i don't like to
think too much ;-)
u all <-- u al used to work until they introduced alps - what the heck is
alps, anyway?
s int b0 (etc)
s ru i s0 (etc)
s access-l
wr t <-- I'll be sunk when this legacy command is removed...
do you know what the default aliases are? (p, s, u are my favorites)
I don't abbreviate trace or some of the other commands...just out of habit
anymore, and i don't type telnet cuz I'm lazy
the rest of them don't really matter much - but the line editing commands
are very powerful. I use Ctrl-P(revious command) and Ctrl-N(ext command))
alot, liberal use of Ctrl-Y/Esc-Y, and Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, Ctrl-U, Esc-B(ack a
word), Esc-F(orward a word)... so my suggestion is learn how to edit the
lines (without the arrow keys, just in case). see
http://www.catspace.com/cheater.htm - you *nix vi gurus probably know all
those control keys cold. When I remember, I use term len 0 to get rid of
the irritating spacebar problem, and logg sync in my console config to cease
interruption of my commands for system messages (Ctrl-R(epaint) is useful
when I forget logg sync)
I also like to copy and paste configs from one router to another...sometimes
using wordpad to edit the lines before I paste them into the new router.
works pretty good when i'm really 'on it'...can be a disaster if i'm not
paying attn
-e-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Hennigan" <jay@west.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: RE: Alias list
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Hansang Bae wrote:
>
> > There is the "freak out" factor to consider. Anyone who's been to the
lab
> > knows EXACTLY what that is. For some reason, I ALWAYS type "sho ip bpg
> > neigh".... which errors out. This wastes a few seconds, but when you're
in
> > front of that rack banging away on the keyboard, a strange thing
> > happens. You get sucked into a time vortex where 2 seconds seem like 2
> > minutes. And one minute seems like 1 hour. This compounds the LFC "Lab
> > Freakout Coefficient" further causing you to freak out.
>
> This may be as significant with the one-day exam, but FWIW I did not use
> aliases in the lab nor did I use them on my practice lab.
>
> My reasoning is that in the old-style two day lab your troubleshooting
> is likely to be on a different network. If you look at the alias lists
> suggested here you'll see that they're primarily show and debug commands.
>
> If you become accustomed to your favorite alias lists, you'll come to
> rely on them. Getting hit with a new network and limited time means
> going through the hassle of entering your alias lists again on all of
> the routers or doing without them.
>
> Practicing using unaliased commands will improve your speed in typing
> them. I got to the point that I could type "sh ip bgp nei" about as
> quickly and effortlessly as typing my name, and I'm not a particularly
> good or fast typist.
>
> I sgree with the idea of setting helpful global configuration commands
> early in the setup stage.
>
> no ip domain-lookup
> ip tcp synwait-time 5
> ip subnet-zero
> line con 0
> exec-timeout 0 0
>
> are good examples.
>
> With the one-day setup, entering aliases may be of some benefit but
> IMHO it's one more thing to stress over and of little value. Practicing
> without them doubtless helped my speed in troubleshooting, and is useful
> in real life when working on customer networks.
>
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