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Redirecting Cisco Show Command Output

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

Have you ever issued a diagnostic command on a Cisco device and wish you could keep the output to review off line at a later time? There actually is a way to do this! (without copying and pasting, etc). I recently was asked to send the results of “show tech-support” to Cisco’s TAC to get help with an issue. To my dismay the result of this command overran the length of the terminal window’s buffer. Rather than changing things on my side I knew this was the opportunity I needed to make my life easier. To send output directly you … Continue reading →

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Testing throughput with TTCP and Cisco Devices

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Even if you have been around networking for a while you may have never ran into the TTCP utility. This utility also comes by the name of PCATTCP. It’s a really small command line, data sending, and throughput testing tool. It sends as much data as possible to another remote instance of TTCP. Cisco devices with newer IOS software (11.2 and newer, so a lot of old stuff too by that standard…) and advanced feature sets such as service provider and advanced IP services include this tool, according to the old Cisco documentation I’ve read. This tool was present on … Continue reading →

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