Update: The “show ip interface” command I've always wanted to have

After I've published the Tcl script that displays the interface IP parameters in a formatted table, cos quickly pointed out a bug: I've expected the IP addresses in the address mask format. In the meantime, I've figured out the root cause of the problem (our remote labs are set to display IP masks in decimal format for compatibility reasons) and fixed the Tcl script. It temporarily sets the terminal ip netmask-format to bit-count before executing the show command. The new script recognizes three parameters:

  • active: display only interfaces that are up/up;

  • configured: display only interfaces with configured IP addresses (unnumbered interfaces using IP address of an interface without one count as configured since IOS reports their IP address as 0.0.0.0).

  • address: displays IP address of the unnumbered interface, not the interface that it's borrowing the address from.
You can view the Tcl source or download it from my web site.

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6 comments:

  1. cos 30 July 2007 09:43
    great! works well here.

    watch out if you're running 12.4(15)T on an 877 with the v5 IPS stuff configured - you'll get told "Not enough free memory to launch Tcl shell" (even with 256MB!), which is a shame.
  2. xabrouck 30 July 2007 10:14
    cos: it's not a shame, it's a feature. Try scripting tcl low-memory low water memory mark.
  3. cos 30 July 2007 11:08
    aha! thank you very much for that. I haven't yet been able to find any info on it on cisco's website, though - is there a default value, for instance?
  4. xabrouck 01 August 2007 09:34
    cos: it's apparently 1/4 of the free processor memory when TCL gets initialized. Open a TAC SR if this is a concern.
  5. Anonymous 02 August 2007 18:59
    Ivan,

    Just tried out this script and I've noticed that it insists on writing to the first tty no matter where it's executed from.

    Example - I put the script in and setup the alias and it works fine. I had a colleague login and when he executed the command, the output displayed on my tty. Once I logged out, he had to logout and log back in for it to work on his terminal.

    Also, is there a way to paginate the output?

    Thanks for the great tip!
    Roddie
  6. Anonymous 02 August 2007 19:24
    Minor correction - It seems to be writing to the first line not TTY.
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