Pix/ASA: View interface status

One of the first command that you usually learn on IOS is the useful command 'show ip interface brief'. This command will allow you to see the list of available interfaces on the router and their status.

Do you know that the pix have an equivalent command? It's easy to miss it because those folks at PixOS Development have rearrange the words a bit. Well the command on the pix or ASA is 'show interface ip brief'.

hostname# show interface ip brief

Interface                  IP-Address      OK? Method  Status                Protocol

Control0/0                 127.0.1.1       YES CONFIG  up                    up

GigabitEthernet0/0         209.165.200.226 YES CONFIG  up                    up

GigabitEthernet0/1         unassigned      YES unset   administratively down down

GigabitEthernet0/2         10.1.1.50       YES manual  administratively down down

GigabitEthernet0/3         192.168.2.6     YES DHCP    administratively down down

Management0/0              209.165.201.3   YES CONFIG  up

Nifty eh. It's a good thing that the Pix/ASA commands are slowly becoming similar in syntax as IOS commands. So that we don't have to go through the confusion again like learning the difference between the conduit and the access-list command.