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Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by James Boney
August 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
798 pages
31h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

disconnect-character — line

Synopsis

disconnect-character ascii-number
no disconnect-character

Configures

The character to use to disconnect a session

Default

None

Description

This command defines the character that a user types to end an interactive session. As with the activation-character command, the ascii-number is the decimal value of the desired character.

Example

In this example, we set the disconnect character to control-D, which is ASCII number 4, and we inform the users with a banner message.

Router(config)# line 2

Router(config-line)# activation-character 13
Router(config-line)# disconnect-character 4
Router(config-line)# vacant-message #
Router(config-line)#               ***** Welcome to Sphinx *****
Router(config-line)#    Press the return key to start the connection
Router(config-line)#    Disconnect with a control-D key
Router(config-line)# #
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