4th February 2012

IOS: Enable and …. Disable ?

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 ?

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  • Christian

    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.