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Chapter10 Configuring Interface Characteristics
Monitoring and Maintaining the Interfaces
Monitoring and Maintaining the Interfaces
These sections contain interface monitoring and maintenance information:
Monitoring Interface Status, page 10-18
Clearing and Resetting Interfaces and Counters, page 10-19
Shutting Down and Restarting the Interface, page 10-19

Monitoring Interface Status

Commands entered at the privileged EXEC prompt display information about the interface, including
the versions of the software and the hardware, the configuration, and statistics about the interfaces.
Table10-3 lists some of these interface monitoring commands. (You can display the full list of show
commands by using the show ? command at the privileged EXEC prompt.) These commands are fully
described in the Cisco IOS Interface Command Reference, Release 12.2.
Table10-3 Show Commands for Interfaces
Command Purpose
show interfaces [interface-id] Display the status and configuration of all interfaces or a specific
interface.
show interfaces interface-id status [err-disabled] Display interface status or a list of interfaces in an error-disabled state.
show interfaces [interface-id] switchport Display administrative and operational status of switching ports.
show interfaces [interface-id] description Display the description configured on an interface or all interfaces and
the interface status.
show ip interface [interface-id] Display the usability status of all interfaces configured for IP routing
or the specified interface.
show interface [interface-id] stats Display the input and output packets by the switching path for the
interface.
show interfaces transceiver properties (Optional) Display speed and duplex settings on the interface.
show interfaces [interface-id] [{transceiver
properties | detail}] module number]
Display physical and operational status about an SFP module.
show running-config interface [interface-id] Display the running configuration in RAM for the interface.
show version Display the hardware configuration, software version, the names and
sources of configuration files, and the boot images.
show controllers ethernet-controller interface-id
phy
Display the operational state of the auto-MDIX feature on the
interface.