12-27-2021 03:09 PM - edited 12-27-2021 03:14 PM
I'm wondering if there is any command on cisco devices to show/identify its role as a router, switch and etc. like what we have on CDP neighbors but now for our local device with CLI. In other words, I need a command to identify the cisco device role (router, switch and etc.)
Please consider that I don't want to find out that from the serial number, ios version, mac address and etc. I want to see that directly in the output.
any help is appreciated.
12-27-2021 07:23 PM
I do not believe that there is any single CLI command that will provide what you are looking for. The closest I can think of would be show version.
I believe that one of the difficulties about what you are looking for is that it is not very helpful just to say this device is a switch. There are many kinds of switch. A layer 2 switch is one thing, a layer 3 switch is a quite different thing (and is quite close to being a router). I recently had experience with a Metro Ethernet switch and found that it is very different from the Catalyst switches that most of us are used to. So a simple "this device is a router" or "this device is a switch" would not be particularly helpful.
12-27-2021 07:34 PM
When you are going to buy a device, Cisco says that this device is a switch, router and etc. I confirmed that most of the time the functionalities is overlapped between them, but still, they are different from each other.
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