Very Basic Question in Routing and Switching

[Aswin S]

I have given an IP to SSH. After logging IN, how to find that the device I have logged into is a switch or Router?

Any checklist available to find this?

[ecsnnsls]

Hi @Aswin S ,

You can use the command "show version" and get to know the model of the device.

Another command is "show inventory".

HTH.

[balaji.bandi]

show version or show inventory -gives you device information on most of the devices.

[mlund · Accepted solution]

Hi

The problem with show version is that it gives you the model.

But if it is a switch, there are many switches that can be configured to do routing.

In my sense, it is then a router ( or maybe a L3 switch). If You do show ip route, You will get different result if it is a switch without routing configured, than You get if it is a switch with routing or a real router.

In a switch it look similar to this

host#show ip route

Default gateway is x.x.x.x

In a switch with routing it can be like this

host#show ip route

IP Route Table for VRF "default"

/Mikael