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Quick tip: display interface bandwidth

To display bandwidths of all interfaces configured on the router use show interface | include protocol|BW command.

Here is a sample printout:

Rtr#show interface | include protocol|BW
FastEthernet0/0 is administratively down, line protocol is down
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
Serial1/0 is up, line protocol is up
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 2000 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec,
Serial1/1 is up, line protocol is up
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 2000 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec,
Serial1/2 is up, line protocol is up
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 2000 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec,
Serial1/3 is administratively down, line protocol is down
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1544 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec,
Loopback0 is up, line protocol is up
  MTU 1514 bytes, BW 8000000 Kbit, DLY 5000 usec,

You could define an alias to create a new IOS command generating this printout (for example, alias exec bw show interface | include protocol|BW). You could also write a simple Tcl script that would accept an interface name and display the bandwidth of that interface.

Posted by Ivan Pepelnjak on Friday, September 19, 2008

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1 comments:

Shawn said...

Good one. I have a suggestion on a similar note, you can also quickly view input/output (great for tracking down where that spanning tree loop is coming from) using: "show interface | inc line|bits"

19 September, 2008 13:44

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