All these years, and I didn’t realise the opposite of the enable, was disable.
Router> Router>enable Router#disable Router>
Does this means that I am ‘dissing’ my router ?
Other posts in the series
- Cisco IOS CLI Regex: sh ip bgp in
- IOS CLI Tip: More accurate pipe commands
- Cisco Nexus NXOS and Fixing broken “switchto” syntax with alias
- show ip eigrp topology all
- Cisco IOS CLI Shortcuts
- The poor man's IOS Traffic Generator
- IOS: "terminal monitor" on, off - logging to your terminal
- IOS: Console, Terminal, Monitor, VTY - what is what ?
- IOS: Clearing an interface configuration
- IOS: Setting Terminal Window Length
- IOS CLI: show run linenum
- IOS: Setting the TCP timeout on IOS
- IOS: enable and .... disable ? (This post)
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access - Part 2
- IOS:Open Source Lab DNS and IP addressing
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access
- ip tcp timestamp
- Cisco ASA and IOS command tip - test aaa-server


ahh..
very handy, if you’ve still got some old switches running catos in your environment
as exit will just log you off, compared to getting out of enable in ios
switch1> (enable)
switch1> (enable) disable
switch1> (enable) exit
Connection closed by foreign host.