Usage Guidelines
The show ip interface brief command can be used to view a summary of the router interfaces. This command displays the IP address, interface status, and additional information.
Examples
Example
The following is sample output from the show ip interface brief command:
Router# show ip interface brief
Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol
GigabitEthernet0/1 unassigned YES unset up up
GigabitEthernet0/2 192.168.190.235 YES unset up up
GigabitEthernet0/3 unassigned YES unset up up
GigabitEthernet0/4 192.168.191.2 YES unset up up
TenGigabitEthernet2/1 unassigned YES unset up up
TenGigabitEthernet2/2 unassigned YES unset up up
TenGigabitEthernet2/3 unassigned YES unset up up
TenGigabitEthernet2/4 unassigned YES unset down down
GigabitEthernet36/1 unassigned YES unset down down
GigabitEthernet36/2 unassigned YES unset down down
GigabitEthernet36/11 unassigned YES unset down down
GigabitEthernet36/25 unassigned YES unset down down
Te36/45 unassigned YES unset down down
Te36/46 unassigned YES unset down down
Te36/47 unassigned YES unset down down
Te36/48 unassigned YES unset down down
Virtual36 unassigned YES unset up up
The following table describes the significant fields shown in the display.
Table 1 show ip interface brief Field DescriptionField |
Description |
Interface |
Type of interface.Note
| The show ip interface brief command also displays GigabitEthernet interfaces. These interfaces reside on slot 0 and are used for internal communication between uplinks and Transport Node Controller (TNC).
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IP-Address |
IP address assigned to the interface. |
OK? |
Yes signifies that the IP address is currently valid. No signifies that the IP address is not currently valid. |
Method |
The method field has the following possible values:
- RARP or SLARP—Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) or Serial Line Address Resolution Protocol (SLARP) request
- BOOTP—Bootstrap protocol
- TFTP—Configuration file obtained from TFTP server
- manual—Manually changed by CLI command
- NVRAM—Configuration file in NVRAM
- IPCP—ip address negotiated command
- DHCP—ip address dhcp command
- unassigned—No IP address
- unset—Unset
- other—Unknown
|
Status |
Indicates the status of interface. Valid values and their meanings are:
- up—Interface is administratively up.
- down—Interface is administratively down.
- administratively down—Interface is administratively down.
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Protocol |
Indicates the operational status of the routing protocol on this interface. |