Talk:Cisco IOS
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[edit] CLI? (2003)
I believe 's IOS is much more than just a command interface. My understanding has been that IOS is the routing software that is common to all of their router products.
The IOS Command line interface (CLI) is just one of the user interfaces through which the function of a device can be provisioned. Saying IOS is a CLI is like saying Microsoft Windows is just a Window manager.
Cisco describes IOS as: "Available on an extensive range of Cisco platforms, Cisco IOS® Software is a feature-rich, network infrastructure software that provides a common IP fabric, functionality and command-line interface (CLI) across your network."
So the CLI is only a part of IOS.
Also, any special reason to use "CIOS"? IOS is referenced simply as "IOS".
For the definitive guide to IOS, see this link [1].
[edit] Security (July 2005)
[01:47, 29 July 2005 66.202.69.194 (new section)] This article needs a section on IOS' security, esp. with the new vulnerabilities and ruckus about them. - User:66.202.69.194
- a quick comment on how fast they respond, is there any source that can be sited to back this up, they're surely not the slowest, and to be honest they are generally easy to work with (all lawsuits aside), but fast is not how I would characterise their response...this is not nessisarily due to lazyness or stonewalling, more to the monolithic nature of the IOS architecture, its not uncommon for a bug fix to take 8-12 months for a fix to start being released...all in all thats not bad given the monumental task of releasing a patch for all the IOS versions that are out there, but whatever the reason for the slow reaction to security bugs, its still pretty slow... thats just been my experience (which is based on more than just the cisco-gate feasco) --Michael Lynn
[edit] Minor Update (Sept 2005)
Removing link to DTUD (DOTU?) ; this link no longer relevant, as it's not as potentially useful as it might have once been. The page was last updated 5 years ago. Any search on Google (etc.) will give you much more timely info on specific commands. As a side note, that page was always poorly named anyway: better name would have "Document Hidden Commands" (commands have been hidden in IOS mainly because they were just put in by engineers for testing purposes; it's not like Cisco 'forgot' to document them). - Liberty 03:04, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
The article needs cleanup. Substantial "howto" stuff has been added since 1-Feb-2007 and it's made the article into a mess, see WP:NOT#IINFO. And yes, I'm going to do some of the cleanup, but right now some of the stuff looks like someone just took their "Introduction to Cisco Routing" class and added things in. Thomas Dzubin Talk 14:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Shortening commands
A section needs to be added describing how you can shorten all commands, such as confgure terminal to conf t. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KevinMadsen (talk • contribs) 15:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC).
