From: Donald B Johnson jr (dbjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 16:45:45 GMT-3
yo fyi
in a version of 12.2 I was working with I think it was on a 2621
the sh ru is gone it is now ambiguous
forget about the swiss alps (airline product set) they went bankrupt.
there is now a rumalade command so it is now sh run!! oui oui
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "routerjocky" <elouie@yahoo.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: Useful abbreviations (was Re: Alias list)
> 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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