Comments on: Changing the Break Character in Cisco IOS

By: SSH Escape Sequences (aka Kill Dead SSH Sessions) - The Lone Sysadmin

SSH Escape Sequences (aka Kill Dead SSH Sessions) - The Lone Sysadmin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:39:03 +0000

[...] BREAK is useful for various things, usually getting back to a terminal server console or getting the attention of network equipment. [...]

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:56:50 +0000

I’ll look forward to that!!

By: Karsten

Karsten — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:31:12 +0000

Thanks Greg for your article and thanks Ivan for your comment about the Caret. While working with PCs I never had problems with the break-sequence, even not on german keyboards. But after switching to MAC I didn’t get the break working on my (german) MAC-keyboard. “CTRL-Caret-x” does the “magic” which I was missing so much …
Thanks again!!! (I’ll shout a beer if we meet sometime … )

By: snetherland

snetherland — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:38:37 +0000

This is a really great post. To be honest, something that has bugged me even more though is the auto-complete key. I have a habit of “tabbing out” lengthy command syntax. One of the things that I like about JunOS is that the space bar functions as the auto-complete key. Obviously not a real productivity boost, but I have relentlessly scoured the internet(meaning i have performed 3 google searches, and hopped through 2 blogrolls) and I have yet to run across a convenient method of modifying this in an IOS terminal session.

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:39:23 +0000

And thanks for the link! Good blog by the way, keep it up.

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:38:43 +0000

I didn’t know that. Do you think that using Ctrl-W is good solution or would some other character be a better sequence ?

By: Changing the break character on Cisco « Teneo !!!

Changing the break character on Cisco « Teneo !!! — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:54:44 +0000

[...] by Aaron Paxson on August 21, 2009 Greg Ferro, Ethereal Mind, posted a great post on how to change the break character on Cisco’s.† This can be handy for folks like me, who always forget, just because it’s not a usual or [...]

By: Aaron Paxson

Aaron Paxson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:47:07 +0000

Nice post! This may come in handy! Will need to store this in long-term memory. Thanks for sharing!

By: Ivan Pepelnjak

Ivan Pepelnjak — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:45:04 +0000

Oh, one more annoyance: Ctrl-Shift-6 works only on US (QWERTY) keyboards (because the Caret sign happens to be Shift-6), non-US keyboards usually require different sequence (sometimes even dependent on the terminal emulator you use).