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IOS: Enable and …. Disable ?

20th July 2008 by

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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Comments

  1. Christian says:
    20th July 2008 at 20:37 +0100

    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.