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CISCO IOS in a Nutshell
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CISCO IOS in a Nutshell

by James Boney
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
25h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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show line

To display the status of a line, use the command show line. This is not a privileged command and can be executed by any user. On an eight-port terminal server, show line gives output like this:

Router>show line
 TTY TYP     Tx/Rx      A Modem  Roty AccO AccI  Uses    Noise   Overruns
   0 CTY               -    -      -    -    -     0        0        0/0
   1 TTY   9600/9600   -    -      -    -    -     3      542        0/0
*  2 TTY   9600/9600   -    -      -    -    -     1        0        0/0
   3 TTY  38400/38400  - RIisCD    -    -    -     1        0        0/0
I  4 TTY  38400/38400  - inout     -    -    -    25        0        0/0
I  5 TTY  38400/38400  - inout     -    -    -  3940        0        0/0
I  6 TTY  38400/38400  - inout     -    -    -  1483        0        0/0
I  7 TTY  38400/38400  - inout     -    -    -   364        0        0/0
I  8 TTY  38400/38400  - inout     -    -    -    12        0        0/0

Table 4-2 shows what the fields in this report mean.

Table 4-2. Fields in a show line display

Column

Meaning

1st column

I = line is idle; * = line is active.

TTY

Actual line number.

TYP

Type of line: CTY (console), AUX, TTY, VTY, LPT.

TX/RX

Transmit and receive baud rates for this line.

A

Autobaud (automatic baud rate detection) is active.

Modem

Type of modem signal configured for this line (callin, callout, cts-req, dtr-act, inout, RIisCd).

Roty

Rotary group configured for this line.

AccO, AccI

Access lists for this line, both output and input (see access-class in Chapter 15).

Uses

Number of connections made to this line since the router was booted.

Noise

Number of times noise was detected on this line. Can be used to gauge line quality.

Overruns

Number of buffer overruns that have occurred on this line, in the format hardware/software ...

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