IOS: Enable and .… Disable ?
July 20, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 1 Comment
This Post is Part of a Series — click for list on Console Mastery»
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 ?
List of Posts in this series:
- Serial Console on OSX
- IOS: Reverse SSH console access — Part 2
- IOS: enable and .… disable ?
- IOS: Setting the TCP timeout on IOS
- IOS:CLI Tip — terminal full help
- OS X:Terminal break for Serial Console on OS X
- Changing the break character in Cisco IOS
- IOS CLI: show run linenum
- IOS: Setting Terminal Window Length
- IOS: Clearing an interface configuration
- IOS: Console, Terminal, Monitor, VTY — what is what ?
- IOS: “terminal monitor” on, off — logging to your terminal
- The poor man’s IOS Traffic Generator
- Setting the Defaults for PUTTY
- Putty — Recommended Default Settings for a Network Engineer
- Putty, the Command Line and NO clicky clicky
- Review: goSerial — Console Break for Network Devices on OSX



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.