Netopia CLI 874 manual Date xx/yy/zz show date

2-6 Command Line Interface Commands Reference

The preferences command allows you to customize certain aspects of the command line interface. Preference settings persist across restarts, and are specific to the user name, if any, you used to authenticate yourself before issuing the preferences command. If no users are defined, no authentication is required, and preference settings are global.

date xx/yy/zz show date

These commands allow you to set or display the current date for the router’s system clock.

exit

The exit command terminates your current console session. If you are connected via telnet or a modem, the connection will be closed. If you are logged in via the serial console, you will return to the command line or menu-based console based on your default console setting. (See the preferences console default command on page 2-6.) In either case, you will be prompted either with a login prompt (if one or more users are defined), or the initial prompt for the selected console interface (if no users are defined).

preferences changes immediate { yes no } show preferences changes immediate

no preferences changes immediate

These commands allow you to specify whether or not WAN configuration changes will take effect immediately. When you specify no, any changes you make to the WAN configuration (except NAT) will not take effect until the router is reset.

Note: The router will reboot immediately when the value of the changes immediate preference item changes. No warning is given.

preferences check vci { yes no }

Note: This command is supported beginning with firmware version 8.2.

This command allows you to set the VCI to any value in the CLI, menu, or SNMP. The ability to set a VCI to 0 – 31 is not normally permitted. This command allows you to override this check and allow a VCI of value 0 – 31.

preferences console default { menu cli } show preferences console default

The preferences console default command specifies the console interface that will be presented to the user on subsequent logins. When set to menu (the default), the user will be presented with the menu-based console interface on subsequent logins. When set to cli, the user will be presented with the command line console interface on subsequent logins. If the preferences console default command is issued and there are no users defined, the setting will determine the console interface that will be presented to all newly established console sessions (via either the serial console port or via telnet).