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Overview
We all have our habits that are inherited from our past experience. Some people are used to IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OX, IOS-XE others prefer Junos etc. Using freeRouter provides a different user experience. Some feature such as show/view/watch/differ diagnosis commands are pretty unique to freeRouter. However, freeRouter have some cards in its sleeves in order to provide you a familiar experience.
Article objective
In this article, we will focus on these features:
- monitor
- length
- width
- spacetab
- tablemode
- timestamps
- colorized
Basically these commands are accessed through freeRouter user mode. If you need to use them from config mode, please use the "do" keyword.
[ #003 ] - "monitor/length/width/spacetab/tablemode/timestamps/colorized"
"terminal colorized" will simply color your prompt
Discussion
monitor/length/width/spacetab/tablemode/timestamps/colorized is a set of feature meant to ease your experience with freeRouter in mimic'ing well know behaviour and proposing you additional convenient features. One main behaviour is that all command issue from the CLI is instantly taken into account.
Conclusion
In this 3rd article:
- We presented freeRouter monitor/length/width/spacetab/tablemode/timestamps/colorized terminal customization command
- These are very useful if you come from Cisco or Junos world as it mimic some termnal behaviour.
Final words
As said, these are terminal commands are not specific to freeRouter. Some behaviour are mimic'ed from IOS and Junos. Anyway, these have been developed for one purpose:
"Make network engineers feel at ease and provide then an enjoyable operation experience "
Feel free to try and use them according to your environment taste!
Last but not least, you can play with these different mode from this sandbox:
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In order to exit the sandbox session use the following escape sequence: Ctrl-c + Ctrl-x
