: CLI Cheat Sheet: Networking
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CLI Cheat Sheet: Networking

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CLI Cheat Sheet: Networking

Use the following table to quickly locate commands for common networking tasks:
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General Routing Commands
  • Display the routing table
> show routing route
  • Look at routes for a specific destination
> show routing fib virtual-router <name> | match <x.x.x.x/Y>
  • Change the ARP cache timeout setting from the default of 1800 seconds.
> set system setting arp-cache-timeout <60-65536>
  • View the ARP cache timeout setting.
> show system setting arp-cache-timeout
NAT
  • Show the NAT policy table
> show running nat-policy
  • Test the NAT policy
> test nat-policy-match
  • Show NAT pool utilization
> show running ippool 
> show running global-ippool 
IPSec
  • Show IPSec counters
> show vpn flow
  • Show a list of all IPSec gateways and their configurations
> show vpn gateway
  • Show IKE phase 1 SAs
> show vpn ike-sa
  • Show IKE phase 2 SAs
> show vpn ipsec-sa
  • Show a list of auto-key IPSec tunnel configurations
> show vpn tunnel
BFD
  • Show BFD profiles
> show routing bfd active-profile [<name>]
  • Show BFD details
> show routing bfd details [interface <name>] [local-ip <ip>] [multihop][peer-ip <ip>] [session-id] [virtual-router <name>]
  • Show BFD statistics on dropped sessions
> show routing bfd drop-counters session-id <session-id>
  • Show counters of transmitted, received, and dropped BFD packets
> show counter global | match bfd
  • Clear counters of transmitted, received, and dropped BFD packets
> clear routing bfd counters session-id all | <1-1024>
  • Clear BFD sessions for debugging purposes
> clear routing bfd session-state session-id all | <1-1024>
PVST+
  • Set the native VLAN ID
> set session pvst-native-vlan-id <vid>
  • Drop all STP BPDU packets
> set session drop-stp-packet
  • Verify PVST+ BPDU rewrite configuration, native VLAN ID, and STP BPDU packet drop
> show vlan all
  • Show counter of times the 802.1Q tag and PVID fields in a PVST+ BPDU packet do not match
> show counter global
Look at the flow_pvid_inconsistent counter.
Troubleshooting
  • Ping from the management (MGT) interface to a destination IP address
> ping host <destination-ip-address>
  • Ping from a dataplane interface to a destination IP address
> ping source <ip-address-on-dataplane> host <destination-ip-address>
  • Show network statistics
> show netstat statistics yes